Brachysuchus Case 1929 (archosaur)

Reptilia - Phytosauria - Parasuchidae

Full reference: E. C. Case. 1929. Description of the skull of a new form of phytosaur, with notes on the characters of described North American phytosaurs. Memoirs of the University of Michigan Museums, Museum of Paleontology 2:1-56

Parent taxon: Mystriosuchinae according to C. F. Kammerer et al. 2016

See also Case 1929, Charig 1967, Huene 1942, Kuhn 1964, Stocker 2010 and Stocker and Butler 2013

Sister taxa: Angistorhinus, Leptosuchomorpha, Protome, Rutiodon, Volcanosuchus, Phytosaurinae

Subtaxa: Brachysuchus megalodon

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Ecology: carnivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of United States (2: Texas collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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