†Riojasuchus tenuisceps Bonaparte 1969 (archosaur)
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Reptilia - Pseudosuchia - Ornithosuchidae
Full reference: J. F. Bonaparte. 1969. Dos nuevas "faunas" de reptiles triasicos de Argentina [Two new reptilian "faunas" of the Argentine Triassic]. Gondwana Stratigraphy (IUGS Symposium, Buenos Aires) 2:283-306
Belongs to Riojasuchus according to M. B. Von Baczko and M. D. Ezcurra 2013
See also Bonaparte 1969 and Nesbitt 2011
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: PVL 3827, a skeleton. Its type locality is Quebrada de los Jachaleros, which is in a Norian fluvial-lacustrine siliciclastic in the Los Colorados Formation of Argentina.
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution: found only at Quebrada de los Jachaleros
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