Kuttysuchus Temporal range: Late Triassic
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Order: | †Aetosauria |
Family: | †Stagonolepididae |
Genus: | †Kuttysuchus Haldar, Ray & Bandyopadhyay, 2025 |
Species: | †K. minori
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Binomial name | |
†Kuttysuchus minori Haldar, Ray & Bandyopadhyay, 2025
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Kuttysuchus is an extinct group of typothoracine aetosaur from the Late Triassic Dharmaram Formation of India. It was described in 2025 on the basis of multiple isolated osteoderms that were nonetheless distinct in their appearance from not only the contemporary Venkatasuchus but also from other aetosaur taxa. The specific combination of characters suggests that Kuttysuchus was a member of the clade Paratypothoracini, with phylogenetic analysis indicating it to have been a basal member of the group. The genus is monotypic, only containing a single species. Kuttysuchus minori.