Gracilisuchus
| Gracilisuchus Temporal range: Middle Triassic
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| Genus: | Gracilisuchus
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| Species: | G. stipanicicorum
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| Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum Romer, 1972
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Gracilisuchus (meaning "graceful crocodile") is an extinct genus of tiny (30 cm long) crurotarsan (a group which includes the ancestors of crocodilians) from the Middle Triassic. It was a suchian close to the ancestry of crocodiles, and was at one time thought to be a dinosaur, but this hypothesis has since been rejected. Its fossils were first discovered in the 1970s.
References
Romer, A.S. (1972). "The Chañares (Argentina) Triassic reptile fauna. An early ornithosuchid pseudosuchian, Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum, gen. et sp. nov." Breviora 389:1-24.
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