Kyasuchus

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.



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