Garjainia

Garjainia Temporal range: Early Triassic,
Mandible elements of G. madiba
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauromorpha
Clade:	Archosauriformes
Family:	†Erythrosuchidae
Genus:	†Garjainia Otschev, 1958
Species
†Garjainia prima Otschev, 1958 (type) †Garjainia madiba Gower et al., 2014
Synonyms
Genus synonymy Vjushkovia Huene, 1960 Species synonymy of G. prima Garjainia triplicostata (Huene, 1960) Vjushkovia triplicostata Huene, 1960

Garjainia is an extinct genus of archosauromorph reptile. It was approximately 1.50–2 m (5–6 ft 8 in) long.

Restoration of G. madiba

Sources

• Gower, D.J., Ochev, V.G. The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, s. 145-147. (link).
• Ochev, V.G. Materials to the Tetrapod History at the Paleozoic-Mesozoic Boundary. 2004. (http://www.sgu.ru/institutes/geology/docs/Ochev_2004.pdf).
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• David Gower. The tarsus of erythrosuchid archosaurs, and implications for early diapsid phylogeny. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1996, 116: 347–375. PDF.
• Gower, David; Hancox, P. John; Botha-Brink, Jennifer; Sennikov, Andrey G.; Butler, Richard J. (November 11, 2014). "A New Species of Garjainia Ochev, 1958 (Diapsida: Archosauriformes: Erythrosuchidae) from the Early Triassic of South Africa". PLOS ONE. 9: e111154. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0111154. PMC 4227673. PMID 25386937. Retrieved 16 November 2014.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)