Sillosuchus Temporal range: Carnian
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Mount in Mori Art Museum Gallery, Japan (Most of skeleton is hypothetical) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Paracrocodylomorpha |
Clade: | †Poposauroidea |
Family: | †Shuvosauridae |
Genus: | †Sillosuchus Alcober & Parrish 1997 |
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Sillosuchus is a genus of shuvosaurid poposauroid archosaur that lived in South America during the Late Triassic period.[1] Shuvosaurids were an unusual family of reptiles belonging to the group Poposauroidea; although their closest modern relatives are crocodilians, they were bipedal and lightly armored, with dinosaur-like hip and skull structures. Based on skull remains from members of the family such as Effigia, they were also toothless and likely beaked herbivores.[2]