Archaeosuchus
| Archaeosuchus Temporal range: Capitanian | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Dinocephalia |
| Family: | †Titanosuchidae |
| Genus: | †Archaeosuchus Broom, 1905 |
| Binomial name | |
| Archaeosuchus cairncrossi | |
Archaeosuchus is an extinct genus of titanosuchian therapsid.[1]
The type specimen is so poorly preserved that no diagnosis can be made. The specimen being indeterminable, the name is a nomen dubium.[2]
Fossils were found for example in the Ecca Group.[1]
See also
References
- 1 2 Schwarz, Ernest Hubert Lewis (1912). South African Geology. p. 156.
- ↑ L.D. Boonstra, 1969, "The Fauna of the Tapinocephalus Zone (Beaufort Beds of the Karoo", Annals of The South African Museum 56:1-73, pg 35.
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