Saurosuchus
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Saurosuchus is an extinct genus of large loricatan pseudosuchian archosaurs that lived in South America during the Late Triassic period. The first and holotype specimen was discovered in 1957 by Galil
Saurosuchus
Posterior view of a replica skeleton mounted at the Ischigualasto Provincial Park visitor center
Life restoration of S. galilei
Saurosuchus hunting a group of Hyperodapedon
Ischigualasto Formation
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The Ischigualasto Formation is a Late Triassic geological formation in the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin of northwestern Argentina. According to radiometric dating of ash beds, the formation dates t
Saurosuchus
…during the Late Triassic period. The first and holotype specimen was discovered in 1957 by Galileo J. Scaglia and Leocadio Soria in the strata of the Ischigualasto Formation in northwestern Argentina. The type and only species, S. galilei, was named in 1959 by Osvaldo A. Reig. Several specimens, including an adult and…
Valle Pintado, Ischigualasto Formation
A sandstone bluff in Ischigualasto Provincial Park
Badlands of multicolored mudstones and paleosols in Ischigualasto Provincial Park
Large calcareous nodules exposed at Cancha de Bochas ("bocce court") in Ischigualasto Provincial Park. This site is the namesake of the Cancha de Bochas Member