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ALRAUSUCHUS
(al-rhow-soo-kus)
meaning: "Alrau crocodile"
Named By: M. F. Ivakhnenko in 2008
Time Period: Middle Permian
Location: Russia
Size: Unavailable
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Partial remains
Classification: | Chordata | Therapsida | Biarmosuchia |
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Alrausuchus is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsid from Russia. It was named by M.F. Ivakhnenko in 2008, as a reclassification of the species Biarmosuchus tagax that Ivachnenko had named in 1990. Ivachnenko erected the monotypic family Alrausuchidae for the genus.

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