Gracilisuchus

Gracilisuchus Fossil range: Middle Triassic
Life restoration of Gracilisuchus
Scientific classification
Infraclass:	Archosauromorpha
(Unranked) :	Crurotarsi
Genus:	Gracilisuchus
Species:	G. stipanicicorum Romer, 1972

Gracilisuchus (meaning "graceful crocodile") is an extinct genus of tiny (30 cm long) crurotarsan (a group which includes the ancestors of crocodilians) from the Middle Triassic. It was a suchian close to the ancestry of crocodiles, and was at one time thought to be a dinosaur, but this hypothesis has since been rejected. Its fossils were first discovered in the 1970s.

ReferencesEdit

Romer, A.S. (1972). "The Chañares (Argentina) Triassic reptile fauna. An early ornithosuchid pseudosuchian, Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum, gen. et sp. nov." Breviora 389:1-24.

External linksEdit

• Gracilisuchus in the Dinosaur Encyclopedia
• Crocodylomorpha fossil record

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