Brachysuchus
Name:
Brachysuchus.
Phonetic: Brak-e-soo-kus.
Named By: E. C. Case - 1929.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Phytosauria, Phytosauridae.
Species: B. megalodon
(type).
Diet: Carnivore/Piscivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: USA, Texas- Colorado City
Formation, and Wyoming - Popo Agie Formation.
Time period: Norian/Rhaetian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Several individuals.
Brachysuchus was originally named as a species of Angistorhinus, A. megalodon, but was raised to its own genus in 1929. As a phytosaur Brachysuchus would have resembled a crocodile, though evolutionally speaking there was no direct link to them.
Further reading
- Description of the skull of a new form of phytosaur with notes on
the characters of described North American phytosaurs. - Memoirs of
the University of Michigan Museums, Museum of Paleontology 2:
1–56. - E. C. Case - 1929.
- A new taxon of phytosaur (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the
Late Triassic (Norian) Sonsela Member (Chinle Formation) in
Arizona, and a critical re-evaluation of Leptosuchus Case, 1922.
- Palaeontology 53 (5): 997–1022. - Michelle R.
Stocker - 2010.
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