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Syntomiprosopus Temporal range: Late Triassic, Norian ~
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
Clade: | Crocopoda |
Clade: | Archosauriformes |
Genus: | †Syntomiprosopus Heckert et al., 2021 |
Species: | †S. sucherorum
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Binomial name | |
†Syntomiprosopus sucherorum Heckert et al., 2021
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Syntomiprosopus (meaning "short face") is an extinct genus of archosauriform, possibly a crocodylomorph from the Late Triassic period of Arizona. The type and only known species is S. sucherorum. Syntomiprosopus was unusually short-snouted, comparable to the Late Cretaceous notosuchian Simosuchus, and is regarded as an example of convergent evolution between Triassic stem-archosaurs and Cretaceous archosaurs.