Calyptosuchus

Calyptosuchus

Taxobox
name = "Calyptosuchus"
fossil_range = Late Triassic
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Aetosauria
familia = Stagonolepididae
genus = "Calyptosuchus"
genus_authority = Long & Ballew 1985

"Calyptosuchus" (meaning "covered crocodile") is an extinct genus of crurotarsan from the Late Triassic of North America. As an aetosaur, it was heavily armored and had a pig-like snout used to uproot plants. The genus might be a junior synonym of "Stagonolepis".


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