Mandasuchus
Sign in to saveMandasuchus is an extinct genus of loricatan pseudosuchian from the Manda Formation of Tanzania, which dates back to the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic. It was a quadrupedal carnivore with a relatively long neck. Although this genus was first mentioned by Alan Charig in 1956, a formal description was not published until 2018.
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Mandasuchus is an extinct genus of loricatan pseudosuchian from the Manda Formation of Tanzania, which dates back to the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic. It was a quadrupedal carnivore with a relatively long neck. Although this genus was first mentioned by Alan Charig in 1956, a formal description was not published until 2018.
==History== left|thumb|Fossils from referred specimens The name was first used in a 1956 doctoral dissertation by Alan J. Charig of the University of Cambridge, along with Teleocrater, an archosaur formally named in 2017. Several well preserved specimens have been found, although there is little cranial material.