Name: Kyasuchus.
Phonetic: Ki-ah-su-kus.
Named By: M. B. Efimov & S. V.
Leshchinskiy - 2000.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Crocodylomorpha, Protosuchia, Shartegosuchidae.
Species: K. saevi (type).
Diet: Uncertain.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Russia - Ilek Formation.
Time period: Hauterivian to Aptian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull remains of at
least three individuals.
Kyasuchus is a genus of protosuchian crocodile that lived in Russia during the early Cretaceous.
Further reading
- [First discovery of a fossil crocodile skull in Siberia], by
M. B. Efimov & S. V. Leshchinskiy. In, Materialy
regionalanoj konferencii geologov Sibiri, Dalshchnego Vostoka i
Severo� ’Vostoka Rossii, A.V. Komarov (ed). Gala Press.
- 2000.