In Depth
Originally named as part of a doctorial dissertation by Alan J. Charig in 1956, Mandasuchus was formally established as a distinct genus in 2018. Mandasuchus is a genus of loricatan pseudosuchian that lived in Africa during the Triassic. Mandasuchus would have been a predator of other terrestrial animals, possibly up to equal size to itself.
Further Reading
- New Triassic archosaurs from Tanganyika, including Mandasuchus and Teleocrater: Dissertation Abstracts. Cambridge University. - Alan J. Charig - 1956. - Mandasuchus tanyauchen, gen. et sp. nov., a pseudosuchian archosaur from the Manda Beds (?Middle Triassic) of Tanzania. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (Supplement to No. 6): 96–121. - Richard J. Butler, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Alan J. Charig, David J. Gower & Paul M. Barrett - 2018.
