Daemonosaurus chauliodus Sues et al. 2011 (theropod)

Reptilia - Theropoda

Full reference: H.-D. Sues, S. J. Nesbitt, D. S. Berman and A. C. Henrici. 2011. A late-surviving basal theropod dinosaur from the latest Triassic of North America. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278:3459-3464

Belongs to Daemonosaurus according to H.-D. Sues et al. 2011

See also Nesbitt and Ezcurra 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CM 76821, a skull (Nearly complete but transversely crushed skull with mandible and associated anterior cervical vertebrae). Its type locality is Ghost Ranch Quarry, which is in a Rhaetian crevasse splay siltstone/conglomerate in the Chinle Formation of New Mexico.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Ghost Ranch Quarry

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