Scythosuchus
| Scythosuchus Temporal range: Early Triassic
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Family: | †Rauisuchidae |
| Genus: | †Scythosuchus Sennikov, 1999 |
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| †Scythosuchus basileus Sennikov, 1999
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Scythosuchus is an extinct genus of rauisuchid. Remains have been found from Olenekian-age Lower Triassic beds in Russia.[1] The type and only species is S. basileus, described in 1999.[2]
References
- ^ Borsuk−Białynicka, M.; Sennikov, A.G. (2009). "Archosauriform postcranial remains from the Early Triassic karst deposits of southern Poland". Palaeontologica Polonica. 65: 283–328.
- ^ Sennikov, A.G. (1999). "The evolution of the postcranial skeleton in archosaurs in connection with new finds of the Rauisuchidae in the Early Triassic of Russia". Paleontological Journal. 1999 (6): 44–56.
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