Gualosuchus

Gualosuchus
Temporal range: Middle Triassic
~242–235 Ma
Skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: Archosauriformes
Clade: †Proterochampsia
Family: †Proterochampsidae
Subfamily: †Rhadinosuchinae
Genus: †Gualosuchus
Romer 1971
Type species
†Gualosuchus reigi
Romer 1971
Reconstruction of Gualosuchus reigi

Gualosuchus is an extinct genus of proterochampsian archosauriform from the Middle Triassic Chañares Formation of Argentina. The type and only species is Gualosuchus reigi, named by paleontologist Alfred Romer in 1971. [1] Its skull length is 40 cm long making it quite a large proterochampsids. Gualosuchus also said to have a more robust humerus and tibia compared to other proterochampsids.[2]

References

  1. ^ Romer, A. S. (1971). "The Chañares (Argentina) Triassic reptile fauna. XI. Two new long-snouted thecodonts, Chanaresuchus and Gualosuchus". Breviora. 379: 1–22.
  2. ^ Trotteyn, Maria Jimena; Arcucc, Andrea; Raugust, Tiago (2013). "Proterochampsia: An endemic archosauriform clade from South America". Geological Society London Special Publications. 379 (1): 379(1): 59-90. Bibcode:2013GSLSP.379...59T. doi:10.1144/sp379.23. S2CID 140590056.


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