Jaikosuchus

<i>Jaikosuchus</i>

Jaikosuchus

Extinct genus of reptiles

Jaikosuchus is an extinct genus of proterosuchid archosauriform. It contains a single species, J. magnus. Fossils have been found from European Russia that date back to the upper Olenekian stage of the Early Triassic.[2]

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The genus was originally assigned as a new species of the proterosuchid Chasmatosuchus in 1979, but was later put in its own genus in 1990. It has often been described as an erythrosuchid, a rauisuchian or a basal suchian closely related to rauisuchians rather than the more traditional view of it being a more primitive archosaur.[3][4] In 2016, it was synonymized again with Chasmatosuchus by Ezcurra et al., but was revived as a distinct genus by Ezcurra et al. again in a 2023 overview of proterosuchid taxonomy, who found its vertebral morphology to be distinct from that of Chasmatosuchus. Both were placed in the new subfamily Chasmatosuchinae.[5][6]

References

  1. [1]
    "†Chasmatosuchus magnus Ochev 1979 (archosauromorph)". Fossilworks.
  2. [2]
    Shishkin, M. A., Ochev, V. G., Lozovskii, V. R. and Novikov, I. V. (2000). Tetrapod biostratigraphy of the Triassic of Eastern Europe. In: M. J. Benton, E. N. Kurochkin, M. A. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp. 140–159.
  3. [3]
    http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/archosauria/pseudosuchia/suchia_2.doc
  4. [4]
    Borsuk-Bialynicka, M., Cook, E., Evans, S. E. and Maryafiska, T. (1999). A microvertebrate assemblage from the Early Triassic of Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 44(2):167-188.
  5. [5]
    Ezcurra, Martín D. (2016-04-28). "The phylogenetic relationships of basal archosauromorphs, with an emphasis on the systematics of proterosuchian archosauriforms". PeerJ. 4: e1778. doi:10.7717/peerj.1778. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 4860341.
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    Ezcurra, Martín D.; Bandyopadhyay, Saswati; Sengupta, Dhurjati P.; Sen, Kasturi; Sennikov, Andrey G.; Sookias, Roland B.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Butler, Richard J. (25 October 2023). "A new archosauriform species from the Panchet Formation of India and the diversification of Proterosuchidae after the end-Permian mass extinction". Royal Society Open Science. 10 (10). doi:10.1098/rsos.230387. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 10598453. PMID 37885992.


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