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HEPTASUCHUS
(hep-tah-soo.kus)
meaning: "Seven crocodile"
Heptasuchus
Named By: R. M. Dawley, J. M. Zawiskie & J. W. Cosgriff in 1979
Time Period: Middle - Late Triassic, 238-230 Ma
Location: USA, Wyoming - Popo Agie Formation
Size: Skull estimated at about 65 centimetres long. Total length estimated at about 4.9-5.2 meters long
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Partial skull and post cranial remains of about 50% of the animal. In total fossil remains of at least four individuals are known
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Rauisuchia | Paracrocodylomorpha | Loricata |
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Heptasuchus is an extinct genus of loricatan pseudosuchian known from the Middle or Late Triassic upper Chugwater Group of Wyoming, United States. It contains a single species, Heptasuchus clarki, the first formally recognized "rauisuchian" or loricatan pseudosuchian from North America.

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