Riojasuchus tenuisceps Bonaparte 1969 (archosaur)

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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