Chalishevia

Chalishevia
Temporal range: Ladinian
~242–237 Ma
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Chalishevia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: Archosauriformes
Family: †Erythrosuchidae
Genus: †Chalishevia
Ochev, 1980
Species
  • †C. cothurnata Ochev, 1980 (type)

Chalishevia is an extinct genus of erythrosuchid archosauriform from the Ladinian Bukobay Formation of Russia (Orenburg Oblast).[1] Though it is only known from a few fragmentary skull bones, the skull is estimated to be around 80 centimeters long, making it one of the largest erythrosuchids known.[2]

  1. ^ Ochev, VG (1980). "New archosaurs from the Middle Triassic of the southern Cis-Urals". Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal. 1980 (101–107).
  2. ^ Butler, R.J.; Sennikov, A.G.; Ezcurra, M.D.; Gower, D.J. (2019). "The last erythrosuchid—a revision of Chalishevia cothurnata from the late Middle Triassic of European Russia". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 64 (4): 757–774. doi:10.4202/app.00648.2019. hdl:11336/123959.