Youngosuchus

Youngosuchus
Temporal range: Middle Triassic
Holotype, Paleozoological Museum of China
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Loricata
Genus: †Youngosuchus
Kalandadze & Sennikov, 1985
Type species
†Vjushkovia sinensis
Young, 1973

Youngosuchus is an extinct genus of archosaur from the Middle Triassic of China. The type species is Y. sinensis. Y. sinensis was first described in 1973 as a new species of the erythrosuchid Vjushkovia.[1] In 1985, it was reassigned as its own genus of rauisuchid.[2] A 1992 study supported the original classification of Youngosuchus sinensis as an erythrosuchid,[3] but more recent studies classify it as a "rauisuchian"-grade loricatan archosaur completely unrelated to Vjushkovia, which is most likely a synonym of Garjainia.[4][5][6][7]

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