Bromsgroveia
Sign in to saveBromsgroveia is an extinct genus of predatory ctenosauriscid archosaur from the Middle Triassic Bromsgrove Sandstone of England. Ctenosauriscids were a group of rauisuchians that was related to the ancestors of modern crocodiles and alligators.
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Bromsgroveia is an extinct genus of predatory ctenosauriscid archosaur from the Middle Triassic Bromsgrove Sandstone of England. Ctenosauriscids were a group of rauisuchians that was related to the ancestors of modern crocodiles and alligators.
== Discovery and naming == The holotype is a right ilium (WM G3a, b; cast as NHMUK PV R 2549) and it was collected from Coton Green Quarry, Warwickshire where the Bromsgrove Sandstone can be found. Owen (1842) assigned WM G3a alongside remains now known to belong to the Mastodonsauridae to Labyrinthodon pachygnathus (now Mastodonsaurus); Owen believed it was a large frog. A cast of the ilium was made around 1895 which was sent to the NHMUK.
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