Kyasuchus is an extinct genus of shartegosuchid crocodyliform. 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.[1][2] 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.[3]
| Kyasuchus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Family: | †Shartegosuchidae |
| Genus: | †Kyasuchus Efimov and Leshchinskiy, 2000 |
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References
edit- ^ Efimov, M. B. and Leshchinskiy, S. V. (2000). First finding of the fossil crocodile skull in Siberia [in Russian]. In: Komarov, A. V., ed., Materialy regional’noj konferencii geologov Sibiri, Dal’nego Vostoka i Severo−Vostoka Rossii. Tom II, 361–363. GalaPress, Tomsk.
- ^ Fiorelli, L. E. and Calvo, J. O. (2007). The first “protosuchian” (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes) from the Cretaceous (Santonian) of Gondwana. Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 65(4):417-459.
- ^ Averianov, A. O., Voronkevich, A. V., Maschenko, E. N., Leshchinskiy, S. V. and Fayngertz, A. V. (2002). A sauropod foot from the Early Cretaceous of Western Siberia, Russia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47(1):117–124.
External links
edit- Kyasuchus in the Paleobiology Database
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