Saurosuchus | |
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Mounted skeleton of Saurosuchus galilei in Mori Art Museum Gallery, Japan | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Paracrocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Loricata |
Family: | †Prestosuchidae |
Genus: | †Saurosuchus Reig, 1959 |
Species: | †S. galilei
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Binomial name | |
†Saurosuchus galilei Reig, 1959
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Saurosuchus (meaning "lizard crocodile") is an extinct genus of large loricatan pseudosuchian archosaurs that lived in South America during the Late Triassic period. It was a heavy, ground-dwelling, quadrupedal carnivore, likely being the apex predator in the Ischigualasto Formation.[1]