Riojasuchus
Name:
Riojasuchus.
Phonetic: Re-o-jah-su-kus.
Named By: J. F. Bonaparte - 1969.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Archosauria, Pseudosuchia, Ornithosuchidae.
Species: R. tenuisceps
(type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Skull 25 centimetres long. Roughly
estimated to be about 2 meters long.
Known locations: Argentina - Los Colorados
Formation.
Time period: Norian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Based upon almost compete
skull and partial post cranial skeletal remains. Fossil remains of at
least four individuals are now known.
Riojasuchus is a genus of ornithosuchid pseudosuchian that lived during the late Triassic. At the time of writing the Ornithosuchidae is a small group of pseudosuchian archosaurs that aside from Riojasuchus, only contains Ornithosuchus and Venaticosuchus.
Further reading
- Dos nuevas "faunas" de reptiles triasicos de Argentina [Two
new reptilian "faunas" of the Argentine Triassic]. - Gondwana
Stratigraphy (IUGS Symposium, Buenos Aires) 2:283-306. - J.
F. Bonaparte - 1969.
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