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Prestosuchus
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 Edit this 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]

  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.

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