Prestosuchus Temporal range: Middle Triassic (Ladinian),
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AMNH 3856, a skeletal mount (cast) of Prestosuchus chiniquensis displayed at the American Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Loricata |
Family: | †Prestosuchidae |
Genus: | †Prestosuchus Huene, 1938 |
Type species | |
†Prestosuchus chiniquensis Huene, 1938
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Prestosuchus (meaning "Prestes crocodile") is an extinct genus of pseudosuchian in the group Loricata, which also includes Saurosuchus and Postosuchus. It has historically been referred to as a "rauisuchian", and was the defining member of the family Prestosuchidae, though the validity of both of these groups is questionable: Rauisuchia is now considered paraphyletic and Prestosuchidae is polyphyletic in its widest form.[1]