| Sillosuchus Temporal range: Carnian
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| Mount in Mori Art Museum Gallery, Japan (Most of skeleton is hypothetical) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Paracrocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | †Poposauroidea |
| Family: | †Shuvosauridae |
| Genus: | †Sillosuchus Alcober & Parrish 1997 |
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Sillosuchus is a genus of shuvosaurid poposauroid archosaur that lived in South America during the Late Triassic period.[1] Shuvosaurids were an unusual family of reptiles belonging to the group Poposauroidea; although their closest modern relatives are crocodilians, they were bipedal and lightly armored, with dinosaur-like hip and skull structures. Based on skull remains from members of the family such as Effigia, they were also toothless and likely beaked herbivores.[2]
- ^ Alcober, O. A.; Parrish, J. M. (1997). "A new poposaurid from the Upper Triassic of Argentina". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 17 (3): 548–556. Bibcode:1997JVPal..17..548A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1997.10011001.
- ^ Sterling J. Nesbitt (2011). "The Early Evolution of Archosaurs: Relationships and the Origin of Major Clades". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 352: 1–292. doi:10.1206/352.1. hdl:2246/6112. S2CID 83493714.