''Longosuchus'' (meaning "Long's crocodile") is an

extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...

genus of aetosaur from the Late Triassic of

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...

and Morocco. It measured about 3 metres in length.

Taxonomy

''Longosuchus'' was originally named as a species of ''

Typothorax ''Typothorax'' is an extinct genus of typothoracine aetosaur that lived in the Late Triassic. Its remains have been found in North America. Two species are known: ''T. coccinarum'', the type species, and ''T. antiquum''. Description ''Typothor ...

'', ''T. meadei'', in 1947 on the basis of skeletal remains from the Otis Chalk quarries in Howard County, western Texas. Hunt and Lucas (1990) recognized ''T. meadei'' as generically distinct from the type species of ''Typothorax'' and renamed it ''Longosuchus'' in honor of Robert Long.A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 1990. Re-evaluation of "Typothorax" meadei, a Late Triassic aetosaur from the United States. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 64:317-328.

References

Aetosaurs of North America Late Triassic pseudosuchians Fossil taxa described in 1990 Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera {{paleo-archosaur-stub