Pravusuchus

This article is about the Arizonan phytosaur. For the Brazilian gracilisuchid, see Parvosuchus. For the South African therocephalian, see Pardosuchus. For the German rhynchocephalian, see Parvosaurus.

Pravusuchus
Temporal range: Late Triassic, 228–209 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: Archosauriformes
Order: †Phytosauria
Family: †Parasuchidae
Clade: †Leptosuchomorpha
Genus: †Pravusuchus
Stocker, 2010
Type species
†Pravusuchus hortus
Stocker, 2010

Pravusuchus is an extinct genus of leptosuchomorph parasuchid phytosaur known from the Late Triassic (Norian stage) of Arizona, United States. It contains a single species, Pravusuchus hortus, which is known from three specimens. These specimens were previously referred to Smilosuchus or to Leptosuchus, but Pravusuchus's autapomorphy, its phylogenetic position as well as a trait shared with mystriosuchins, justified the erection of a new taxon for the material.[1]

  1. ^ Stocker, M. R. (2010). "A new taxon of phytosaur (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the Late Triassic (Norian) Sonsela Member (Chinle Formation) in Arizona, and a critical reevaluation of Leptosuchus Case, 1922". Palaeontology. 53 (5): 997–1022. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00983.x.