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Sillosuchus
Fossil range: Late Triassic

Scientific classification

Class:

Sauropsida

Order:

Rauisuchia

Family:

Poposauridae

Subfamily:

Shuvosaurinae

Genus:

Sillosuchus
Alcober & Parrish, 1997

Species:

  • S. longicervix
    Alcober & Parrish 1997(type)

Sillosuchus is a genus of poposaurid crurotarsans from the Late Triassic of Argentina.[1]

Sillosuchus is the only poposaurid currently known from outside North America. Other members of the clade include Shuvosaurus, Poposaurus and Effigia.[2][3]

Discovery[]

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References[]

  1. ^ Alcober O, Parrish JM. 1997. A new poposaurid from the upper Triassic of Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17:548–556.
  2. ^ Nesbitt SJ, Norell MA. 2006. Extreme convergence in the body plans of an early suchian (Archosauria) and ornithomimid dinosaurs (Theropoda). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 273: 1045–1048.
  3. ^ Nesbitt S. 2007. The anatomy of Effigia okeeffeae (Archosauria, Suchia), theropod-like convergance, and the distribution of related taxa. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 302: 84 pp.
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