''Sichuanosuchus'' 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 ...

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crocodylomorph Crocodylomorpha is a group of pseudosuchian archosaurs that includes the crocodilians and their extinct relatives. They were the only members of Pseudosuchia to survive the end-Triassic extinction. During Mesozoic and early Cenozoic times, cro ...

from the Late Jurassic and possibly

Early Cretaceous The Early Cretaceous ( geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous. It is usually considered to stretch from 145 Ma to 100.5 Ma. Geology Pro ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

Systematics

Poll and Norell (2004) recovered ''Sichuanosuchus'' as sister to ''Shantungosuchus'' and ''Zosuchus'' based on the presence of a ventrally deflected posterior region of the mandibular rami. Buscalioni (2017) recovered ''Sichuanosuchus'' as sister to ''Shantungosuchus'', ''Zosuchus'', and Shartegosuchidae, and Dollman et al. (2018) went further by erecting Shartegosuchoidea for the clade formed by

Shartegosuchidae Shartegosuchidae is an extinct family of Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous crocodylomorphs. The family is named after the Late Jurassic Shar Teeg Beds in southwestern Mongolia, from which most shartegosuchid remains have been found. Five genera ...

, ''Sichuanosuchus'', ''Zosuchus'', and ''Shantungosuchus''.Kathleen N. Dollman; James M. Clark; Mark A. Norell; Xu Xing; Jonah N. Choiniere (2018). "Convergent evolution of a eusuchian-type secondary palate within Shartegosuchidae". ''American Museum Novitates''. 3901: 1–23. doi:10.1206/3901.1.

References

* ''Chinese Fossil Vertebrates'' by Spencer G. Lucas Terrestrial crocodylomorphs Late Jurassic crocodylomorphs Early Cretaceous crocodylomorphs of Asia Cretaceous China Jurassic China Mesozoic reptiles of Asia Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera {{paleo-archosaur-stub