Longosuchus

Longosuchus (meaning "Long's crocodile") is an extinct genus of aetosaur from the Late Triassic of North America and Morocco.[1][2] It measured about 3 metres in length.[1]

Longosuchus
Temporal range: Late Triassic
Skeleton
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Order: †Aetosauria
Family: †Stagonolepididae
Subfamily: †Desmatosuchinae
Genus: †Longosuchus
Hunt & Lucas, 1990
Species
  • †L. meadei (Sawin, 1947) (type)

Taxonomy
Restoration

Longosuchus was originally named as a species of Typothorax, T. meadei, in 1947 on the basis of skeletal remains from the Otis Chalk quarries in Howard County, western Texas. Hunt and Lucas (1990) recognized T. meadei as generically distinct from the type species of Typothorax and renamed it Longosuchus in honor of Robert Long.[3][4]

References
  1. Sues, Hans-Dieter; Fraser, Nicholas C. (2010). Triassic Life on Land: The Great Transition. ISBN 978-0-231-13522-1.
  2. Lucas, Spencer (1998). "The aetosaur Longosuchus from the Triassic of Morocco and its biochronological significance". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série IIA. 326 (8): 589–594. Bibcode:1998CRASE.326..589L. doi:10.1016/S1251-8050(98)80211-5.
  3. H. J. Sawin. 1947. The pseudosuchian reptile Typothorax meadei. Journal of Paleontology 21:201-238.
  4. A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 1990. Re-evaluation of "Typothorax" meadei, a Late Triassic aetosaur from the United States. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 64:317-328.


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