Youngosuchus
Name:
Youngosuchus
(Young’s crocodile).
Phonetic: Young-o-soo-kus.
Named By: L. L. Kalandadze & A. G.
Sennikov - 1985.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Archosauromorpha, Archosauriformes, Erythrosuchidae?/Rauisuchia?
Species: Y. sinensis (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: China, Xinjiang - Kelamayi
Formation.
Time period: Mid Triassic.
Fossil representation: Skull and partial post
cranial remains.
Youngosuchus was first described in 1973 by C. C. Young as a species of the genus Vjushkovia, V. sinensis. In 1985 however a re-description by Kalandadze & A. G. Sennikov saw the species described as a distinct genus, Youngosuchus. Since then there has been some uncertainty as to what kind of archosauromorph Youngosuchus was, with some researchers supporting the identification of Youngosuchus as a rauisuchian, while others support the original idea that Youngosuchus an erythrosuchid. Youngosuchus is named after C.C. Young who originally named the remains of Youngosuchus as a species of Vjushkovia.
Further reading
- On the occurrence of Vjushkovia in Sinkiang.
Memoirs of the
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology 10:
38–52. - C. C. Young - 1973.
- Novyye reptilii iz sredengo triasa Yuzhnugo Priural'ya [New
reptiles from the Middle Triassic of the Southern Urals] -
Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1985 (2): 777–784. - L.
L. Kalandadze & A. G. Sennikov - 1985.
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