Fruitachampsa is a genus of shartegosuchid crocodyliform from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Colorado. It is known from multiple specimens that show it to have been a relatively long-limbed terrestrial quadrupedal predator less than long, with a short face and a prominent pair of canine-like teeth in the lower jaw. Before it was formally described in 2011, it was also known as the "Fruita form". Its type species is F. callisoni.
Fruitachampsa is a genus of shartegosuchid crocodyliform from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Colorado. It is known from multiple specimens that show it to have been a relatively long-limbed terrestrial quadrupedal predator less than long, with a short face and a prominent pair of canine-like teeth in the lower jaw. Before it was formally described in 2011, it was also known as the "Fruita form". Its type species is F. callisoni.
==Discovery== Fossils of Fruitachampsa have been found from the Fruita Paleontological Area (FPA) in Fruita, Colorado. The deposits in the FPA belong to the Morrison Formation, which is Late Jurassic in age. The first remains of Fruitachampsa were found by paleontologists James Clark and George Callison in 1975, who discovered a diverse assemblage of microvertebrates at the FPA. More complete material of Fruitachampsa was found in 1976, 1977, and 1979. Fruitachampsa has been found alongside another more basal crocodylomorph, Macelognathus.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).