Stagonosuchus nyassicus Huene 1938 (archosaur)

Reptilia - Pseudosuchia

Full reference: F. v. Huene. 1938. Ein großer Stagonolepide aus der jüngeren Triass Ostafrikas. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Beilage-Band B 80:264-276

Belongs to Stagonosuchus according to S. Lautenschlager and J. B. Desojo 2011

See also Gebauer 2004 and Huene 1938

Sister taxa: Stagonosuchus major, Stagonosuchus tanganyikaensis

Type specimen: GPIT/RE/3831/1-21, a partial skeleton (right articular, atlantal centrum and neural spine, axial centrum, four cervical vertebrae, nine dorsal vertebrae, two sacral vertebrae, three caudal vertebr). Its type locality is northwestern Slope Lihandje Mountains/Njalila, which is in an Anisian fluvial-deltaic horizon in the Manda Beds Formation of Tanzania.

Ecology: planktonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at northwestern Slope Lihandje Mountains/Njalila

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