Name:
Yonghesuchus
(Yonghe crocodile).
Phonetic: Yong-he-su-kus.
Named By: X. -C. Wu, J. Liu & J.
Li - 2001.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Diapsida,
Archosauromorpha, Archosauria, Pseudosuchia, Suchia,
Gracilisuchidae.
Species: Y. sangbiensis
(type).
Diet: Insectivore/Carnivore.
Size: Holotype skull about 15.5. centimetres
long.
Known locations: China - Tongchuan Formation.
Time period: Ladinian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Two partial skulls, a
mandible and some vertebrae.
Yonghesuchus is a genus of small arhcosaur that lived in China during the Triassic. Although a total body length is unknown at the time of writing, the small skull size alone indicates that Yonghesuchus would have been a small animal, and a predator of animals even smaller than itself.
Further reading
- The anatomy of the first archosauriform (Diapsida) from the
terrestrial Upper Triassic of China. - Vertebrata PalAsiatica
39:251-265. - X. -C. Wu, J. Liu & J. Li -
2001.