Mandasuchus
Name:
Mandasuchus
(Manda crocodile).
Phonetic: Man-dah-su-kus.
Named By: Richard J. Butler, Sterling J.
Nesbitt, Alan J. Charig, David J. Gower & Paul M.
Barrett - 2018.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Suchia,
Paracrocodylomorpha, Loricata.
Species: M. tanyauchen
(type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Larger individuals roughly up 3 to 3.1
meters long.
Known locations: Tanzania - Manda Formation.
Time period: Ladinian/Anisian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial skull bones and
partial post cranial remains.
Originally
named as part of a doctorial dissertation by Alan J. Charig in
1956, Mandasuchus was formally established as a
distinct genus in
2018. Mandasuchus is a genus of loricatan
pseudosuchian that lived
in Africa during the Triassic. Mandasuchus would
have been a predator
of other terrestrial animals, possibly up to equal size to itself.
Further reading
- New Triassic archosaurs from Tanganyika, including Mandasuchus
and Teleocrater: Dissertation Abstracts. Cambridge University. -
Alan J. Charig - 1956.
- Mandasuchus tanyauchen, gen. et sp.
nov., a pseudosuchian
archosaur from the Manda Beds (?Middle Triassic) of Tanzania. -
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (Supplement to No. 6):
96–121. - Richard J. Butler, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Alan
J. Charig, David J. Gower & Paul M. Barrett -
2018.
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