Biology:Pagosvenator

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Short description: Extinct genus of reptiles

Pagosvenator
Temporal range: late Ladinian-earliest Carnian
~239–235 Ma
Scientific classification e
Missing taxonomy template (fix): Archosauria/Reptilia
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Suchia
Family: Erpetosuchidae
Genus: Pagosvenator
Lacerda, de França & Schultz, 2018
Type species
Pagosvenator candelariensis
Lacerda, de França & Schultz, 2018

Pagosvenator is an extinct genus of erpetosuchid from the Mid-Late Triassic Dinodontosaurus Assemblage Zone of the Santa Maria Supergroup of Brazil . The type species, Pagosvenator candelariensis, was described in 2018.[1]

Pagosvenator is a Brazilian genus which has been allied with the ornithosuchids prior to receiving a formal description in 2018. Despite only being known from a skull and a few vertebrae and osteoderms, which were anonymously donated to the Candelária Museum in 2015,[1] it shares similarities with several erpetosuchids. Although its description only compared it with Erpetosuchus and Parringtonia, its assignment to this family does have some support. It shares a few traits with these other genera, such as maxillary teeth at only the front of the mouth and a portion of the maxilla under the lacrimal which is higher than long.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lacerda, Marcel B.; França, De; G, Marco A.; Schultz, Cesar L. (2018). "A new erpetosuchid (Pseudosuchia, Archosauria) from the Middle–Late Triassic of Southern Brazil" (in en). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184 (3): 804–824. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly008. 

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