Terrestrisuchus is an extinct genus of very small early crocodylomorph that was about 76 centimetres (30 in) long. Fossils have been found in Wales and Southern England and date from near the very end of the Late Triassic during the Rhaetian, and it is known by type and only known species T. gracilis. Terrestrisuchus was a long-legged, active predator that lived entirely on land, unlike modern crocodilians. It inhabited a chain of tropical, low-lying islands that made up southern Britain, along with similarly small-sized dinosaurs and abundant rhynchocephalians. Numerous fossils of Terrestrisuchus are known from fissures in limestone karst which made up the islands it lived on, which formed caverns and sinkholes that preserved the remains of Terrestrisuchus and other island-living reptiles.
and sinkholes that preserved the remains of Terrestrisuchus and other island-living reptiles. Terrestrisuchus was a small, slender crocodylomorph with very...
such as the extant gharials. In some forms, like Hesperosuchus and Terrestrisuchus, metatarsal V still had one or two phalanges, but in Crocodyliformes...
translated means "leaping foot crocodile". It has been proposed that Terrestrisuchus gracilis and Saltoposuchus connectens represent different ontogenetic...
resolve some evolutionary puzzles: The earliest crocodylomorphs, e.g., Terrestrisuchus, were slim, leggy terrestrial predators whose build suggests a fairly...
by Kermack and Robinson along with the holotypes of Pantydraco and Terrestrisuchus, and were subsequently lost in the collections of the Natural History...
unresolved positions (Kayentasuchus, Litargosuchus, Pseudhesperosuchus, and Terrestrisuchus). More recently, however, Clark et al. (2004) argued for the paraphyly...
bristolensis Geographically present in Bristol. Two vertebrae and a humerus. Terrestrisuchus? Indeterminate Geographically present in Bristol and South Wales. Indeterminate...
consistent with the fossil evidence: The earliest crocodylomorphs, e.g. Terrestrisuchus, were slim, leggy terrestrial predators. Erect limbs appeared quite...
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