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KYASUCHUS
(ki-ah-su-kus)
Named By: M. B. Efimov & S. V. Leshchinskiy in 2000
Time Period: Early Cretaceous
Location: Russia - Ilek Formation
Size: Unavailable
Diet: Uncertain
Fossil(s): Partial skull remains of at least three individuals
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Crocodylomorpha | Protosuchia | Shartegosuchidae |
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Kyasuchus is an extinct genus of shartegosuchid crocodylomorph. Fossils have been found from the Ilek Formation outcropping in the Kemerovo Oblast of Russia, deposited during the Aptian and Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous. The localities from which specimens of this genus have been found have also yielded many other vertebrate remains such as those of palaeonisciform fishes, turtles, various lizards, troodontids, triconodonts, the ceratopsian Psittacosaurus, and the protosuchian-grade crocodylomorph Tagarosuchus.

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