Fasolasuchus
Sign in to saveFasolasuchus is an extinct genus of loricatan. Fossils have been found in the Los Colorados Formation of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin in northwestern Argentina that date back to the Norian stage of the Late Triassic, making it one of the last rauisuchians (an informal grouping of large carnivourous archosaurs) to have existed before rauisuchians became extinct at the end of the Triassic.
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Fasolasuchus is an extinct genus of loricatan. Fossils have been found in the Los Colorados Formation of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin in northwestern Argentina that date back to the Norian stage of the Late Triassic, making it one of the last rauisuchians (an informal grouping of large carnivourous archosaurs) to have existed before rauisuchians became extinct at the end of the Triassic.
It is known from two individuals of different sizes, found very close to each other, these represent partial cranial and postcranial remains.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fasolasuchus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.