Lagosuchus

Lagosuchus is an extinct genus of avemetatarsalian archosaur from the Late Triassic of Argentina. The type species of Lagosuchus, Lagosuchus talampayensis, is based on a small partial skeleton recovered from the early Carnian-age Chañares Formation. The holotype skeleton of L. talampayensis is fairly fragmentary, but it does possess some traits suggesting that Lagosuchus was a probable dinosauriform, closely related to dinosaurs.

Lagosuchus

Ogmios · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
rabbit crocodilePBDB
Sits inside
DinosauriformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At most 4.5 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 241.464 Mya and 237 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Lagosuchus on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

1 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

1 formation

Chañares — 29.82°S, 67.82°W

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The named rock units Lagosuchus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lagosuchus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Lagosuchus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Lagosuchus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Lagosuchus

Credit
Ogmios
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photography scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Lagosuchus talampayensis · pvl:3870

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDinosauriformes through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Romer 1971