Vjushkovia
Name:
Vjushkovia.
Phonetic: V-yush-ko-ve-ah.
Named By: Friedrich von Huene - 1960.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Archosauromorpha, Archosauriformes, Erythrosuchidae.
Species: V. triplocostata
(type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: About 3 meters long.
Known locations: Russia - Petropavlovka
Formation.
Time period: Olenekian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Skull and post cranial
remains.
A significantly larger relative to the more famous Euparkeria, Vjushkovia was a mid-sized Triassic aged archosauromorph that hunted in ecosystems in what is now Russia. One former species of Vjushkovia named V. sinensia has now been renamed as Youngosuchus.
Further reading
- Ein grosser Pseudosuchier aus der Orenburger Trias [A large
pseudosuchian from the Orenburg Trias]. Palaeontographica Abteilung
A 114:105-111. - Friedrich von Huene - 1960.
- Cranial anatomy and taxonomy of the erythrosuchid archosauriform 'Vjushkovia
triplicostata' Huene, 1960, from the Early Triassic of
European Russia.
- Royal Society Open Science. 6 (11): 191289. - Richard J. Butler,
Andrey G. Sennikov, Emma M. Dunne, Martin D. Ezcurra, Brandon P.
Hedrick, Susannah C. R. Maidment, Luke E. Meade, Thomas J. Raven
& David J. Gower - 2019.
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