Temporal range: Middle Triassic (Ladinian), 242–235 Ma
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AMNH 3856, a skeletal mount (cast) of Prestosuchus chiniquensis displayed at the American Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Clade:
Archosauria
Clade:
Pseudosuchia
Clade:
Loricata
Family:
†Prestosuchidae
Genus:
†Prestosuchus Huene, 1938
Type species
†Prestosuchus chiniquensis
Huene, 1938
Other species
†P. nyassicus? (Huene, 1939)
Synonyms
"Karamuru vorax"? (nomen nudum) Kischlat, 2000
Huenesuchus Kischlat, 2023
Stagonosuchus? Huene, 1939
Prestosuchus (meaning "Prestes crocodile") is an extinct genus of pseudosuchian in the group Loricata, which also includes Saurosuchus and Postosuchus. It has historically been referred to as a "rauisuchian", and was the defining member of the family Prestosuchidae, though the validity of both of these groups is questionable: Rauisuchia is now considered paraphyletic and Prestosuchidae is polyphyletic in its widest form.[1]
^Sterling J. Nesbitt (2011). "The Early Evolution of Archosaurs: Relationships and the Origin of Major Clades". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 352: 1–292. doi:10.1206/352.1. hdl:2246/6112. S2CID 83493714.
a second valid species of Prestosuchus, Prestosuchus nyassicus, by Desojo et al. (2020). Like its relatives, Prestosuchus had a deep skull and serrated...
the animal as having been congeneric with Prestosuchus chiniquensis, also named by him. While Prestosuchus chiniquensis saw several additional finds attributed...
They included giant, quadrupedal apex predators such as Saurosuchus, Prestosuchus, and Fasolasuchus. Ornithosuchids were large scavengers, while erpetosuchids...
growth rate, similar to most other "rauisuchians", with the exception of Prestosuchus. The same study also determined that the specimen was somatically and...
more limited setting. In these studies it refers to a clade containing Prestosuchus, Saurosuchus, and Luperosuchus. Even so, the validity of this clade is...
loricatans at least as derived as Batrachotomus. However, a restudy of Prestosuchus by Da-Silvia et al. (2016) showed that the pit was present in basal loricatans...
feature was not present in Prestosuchus, which he excluded from the group. Later studies found support for a placement of Prestosuchus deep within Suchia, so...
closely related to crocodylomorphs than to other "rauisuchians" (such as Prestosuchus and Saurosuchus). As a result, Rauisuchia in its traditional usage may...
crocodilians and some of their Triassic relatives, such as Postosuchus and Prestosuchus. More specifically, Loricata includes Crocodylomorpha (the persistent...
Batrachotomus was a more basal pseudosuchian only slightly more "advanced" than Prestosuchus. In addition, the toothless Lotosaurus has been found to be more closely...
(2019)'s study of a new Prestosuchus specimen. This study did not fully support the Luperosuchus + Saurosuchus + Prestosuchus clade, although it did note...
February 2020). "Anatomy, taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of Prestosuchus chiniquensis (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the original collection...
anatomy of the postcranial skeleton of the most complete specimen of Prestosuchus chiniquensis reported to date, and revise the diagnosis for P. chiniquensis...
Crurotarsi in 1990, defining it as "Parasuchia [phytosaurs], Ornithosuchidae, Prestosuchus, Suchia, and all descendants of their common ancestor". The groups in...
and Walker, showing the close relationships between Batrachotomus and Prestosuchus, led to the transfer of Batrachotomus to the family Prestosuchidae. Sterling...
and Saurosuchus had a body length of around 7 m (23 ft). A specimen of Prestosuchus discovered in 2010 suggest that this animal also reached lengths of nearly...
related to Aetosaurus and Desmatosuchus than to Leptosuchus, Postosuchus, Prestosuchus, Poposaurus, Sphenosuchus, Alligator, Gracilisuchus, and Revueltosaurus...
2020 study argued that Stagonosuchus was a second species of Prestosuchus, Prestosuchus nyassicus. Gower, D. J. (2000). "Rauisuchian archosaurs (Reptilia:Diapsida):...
growth stage of the larger Prestosuchus chiniquensis. A study on the bone histology of Fasolasuchus tenax and Prestosuchus chiniquensis, providing evidence...
Oliver (2020). "Anatomy, taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of Prestosuchus chiniquensis (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the original collection...