Longosuchus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = [[Late Triassic]] | image = Longosuchus Austin, Texas display.jpg | image_caption = Mounted skeleton | taxon = Longosuchus | authority = Hunt & Lucas, 1990 | subdivision_ranks = [[Species]] | subdivision = * {{extinct}}'''''L. meadei''''' <small>(Sawin, 1947) ([[type species|type]])</small> }}

'''''Longosuchus''''' (meaning "Long's crocodile") is an [[extinct]] [[genus]] of [[Desmatosuchinae|desmatosuchin]] [[aetosaur]] from the Late [[Triassic]] of [[North America]].<ref name="Triassic" /><ref name="Lucas 1998">{{cite journal |last1=Lucas |first1=Spencer |title=The aetosaur Longosuchus from the Triassic of Morocco and its biochronological significance |journal=Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série IIA |date=1998 |volume=326 |issue=8 |pages=589–594 |doi=10.1016/S1251-8050(98)80211-5|bibcode=1998CRASE.326..589L }}</ref> Reported fossils from Morocco are likely misidentified scutes of a [[Paratypothoracini|paratypothoracin]] aetosaur.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Parker |first1=William G. |last2=Martz |first2=Jeffrey W. |date=2010-07-14 |title=Using positional homology in aetosaur (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) osteoderms to evaluate the taxonomic status of ''Lucasuchus hunti'' |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249023832 |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=1100–1108 |bibcode=2010JVPal..30.1100P |doi=10.1080/02724634.2010.483536 |issn=0272-4634 |s2cid=83713904}}</ref> ''Longosuchus'' measured about 3 metres in length.<ref name=Triassic>{{cite book |last1=Sues |first1=Hans-Dieter |last2=Fraser |first2=Nicholas C. |year=2010 |title=Triassic Life on Land: The Great Transition |isbn=978-0-231-13522-1}}</ref>

==Taxonomy== [[File:Longosuchus BW.jpg|thumb|left|Restoration]] ''Longosuchus'' was originally named as a species of ''[[Typothorax]]'', ''T. meadei'', in 1947 on the basis of skeletal remains from the Otis Chalk quarries in Howard County, western Texas. Hunt and Lucas (1990) recognized ''T. meadei'' as generically distinct from the type species of ''Typothorax'' and renamed it ''Longosuchus'' in honor of Robert Long.<ref>H. J. Sawin. 1947. The pseudosuchian reptile Typothorax meadei. Journal of Paleontology 21:201-238.</ref><ref>A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 1990. Re-evaluation of "Typothorax" meadei, a Late Triassic aetosaur from the United States. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 64:317-328.</ref>

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[[Category:Aetosaurs of North America]] [[Category:Late Triassic pseudosuchians]] [[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1990]] [[Category:Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera]]