Reptilia - Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Full reference: A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 1993. A new phytosaur (Reptilia: Archosauria) genus from the uppermost Triassic of the western United States and its biochonological significance. The Nonmarine Triassic. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 3:193-196
Belongs to Redondasaurus according to M. R. Stocker and R. J. Butler 2013
See also Long and Murry 1995 and Spielmann et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Machaeroprosopus andersoni, Machaeroprosopus buceros, Machaeroprosopus jablonskiae, Machaeroprosopus lottorum, Machaeroprosopus mccauleyi, Machaeroprosopus pristinus, Machaeroprosopus tenuis, Machaeroprosopus validus, Pseudopalatus maccauleyi, Redondasaurus gregorii
Type specimen: CM uncat., a skull. Its type locality is Ghost Ranch Quarry, which is in a Rhaetian crevasse splay siltstone/conglomerate in the Chinle Formation of New Mexico.
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution: found only at Ghost Ranch Quarry
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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