Bromsgroveia
Name:
Bromsgroveia
(named after the Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation).
Phonetic: Broms-gro-ve-e-ah.
Named By: P. M. Galton – 1985.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Rauisuchia,
Paracrocodylomorpha, Poposauroidea, Ctenosauriscidae.
Species: B. walkeri (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: England - Bromsgrove Sandstone
Formation - Finstall Member.
Time period: Anisian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Bromsgroveia is a genus of poposaurid rauisuchian that lived in England during the early Triassic. Bromsgroveia was named after the Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation where the holotype fossils were discovered.
Further reading
- The poposaurid thecodontian Teratosaurus suevicus
v. Meyer,
plus referred specimens mostly based on prosauropod dinosaurs, from
the Middle Stubensandstein (Upper Triassic) of Nordw�rttemberg.
Stuttgarter Beitr�ge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und
Pal�ontologie) 116:1-29. – P. M. Galton – 1985.
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