Orthosuchus
Appearance
Orthosuchus Temporal range: Early Jurassic
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Family: | †Protosuchidae |
Genus: | †Orthosuchus Nash, 1968 |
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Orthosuchus is an extinct genus of protosuchian crocodyliform that lived during the Early Jurassic.[1]
References
- ^ Pol D, Ji S, Clark JM, Chiappe LM. 2004. Basal crocodyliforms from the Lower Cretaceous Tugulu Group (Xinjiang, China), and the phylogenetic position of Edentosuchus. Cretaceous Research 25(4): 603-622.