Name:
Coahomasuchus.
Phonetic: Ko-ah-hu-mah-soo-kus
Named By: A. B. Heckert & S. G.
Lucas - 1999.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Aetosauria,
Stagonolepididae.
Species: C. kahleorum
(type), C. chathamensis.
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Roughly about 1.5 meters long.
Known locations: USA, North Carolina - Pekin
Formation, Texas - Colorado City Formation.
Time period: Carnian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Coahomasuchus
is a genus of aetosaur that lived in North America during the late
Triassic. Like relatives, Coahomasuchus had
plate like osteoderms
that ran down the length of the back and under the throat. With a
length of about one and a half meters, Coahomasuchus
is one of the
smaller aetosaurs.
Further reading
- A new aetosaur
(Reptilia: Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic of Texas and the
phylogeny of aetosaurs. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
19:50-68. - A. B. Heckert & S. G. Lucas -
1999.
- A new species of Coahomasuchus (Archosauria,
Aetosauria) from
the Upper Triassic Pekin Formation, Deep River Basin, North
Carolina. - Journal of Paleontology. 91 (1): 162–178.
- A. B. Heckert, N. C. Fraser & V. P.
Schneider
- 2017.