Bystrowisuchus

Bystrowisuchus
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: †Poposauroidea
Family: †Ctenosauriscidae
Genus: †Bystrowisuchus
Sennikov, 2012
Type species
†Bystrowisuchus flerovi
Sennikov, 2012

Bystrowisuchus is an extinct genus of ctenosauriscid pseudosuchian archosaur from the Early Triassic of European Russia. Fossils have been found in the Olenekian-age Lipovskaya Formation in Ilovlinsky District. The type species is Bystrowisuchus flerovi.[1]

Description

Bystrowisuchus flerovi is based on a holotype specimen including six cervical or neck vertebrae and a partial right ilium or hip bone. Its total body length is estimated at 2 to 3 metres (6.6 to 9.8 ft).[1]

Discovery

The holotype specimen of Bystrowisuchus was found near the eastern banks of the Don River in Ilovlinsky District, Volgograd Oblast. It came from a fossil site known as the Donskaya Luka locality, which preserves a wide diversity of Early Triassic tetrapod fossils. Along with Bystrowisuchus, the Donskaya Luka fossil assemblage includes temnospondyl amphibians, a chroniosuchian, a procolophonid, a sauropterygian, a protorosaurian, possible trilophosaurid archosauromorphs, two rauisuchid archosaurs, and a dicynodont. Elongated neural spines previously attributed to the rauisuchid Scythosuchus basileus may belong instead to Bystrowisuchus.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Sennikov, A. G. (2012). "The first ctenosauriscid (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) from the Lower Triassic of Eastern Europe". Paleontological Journal. 46 (5): 499–511. doi:10.1134/S0031030112050097. S2CID 83717000.


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