Volcanosuchus
| Volcanosuchus Temporal range: Late Triassic
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Phytosauria |
| Family: | †Parasuchidae |
| Subfamily: | †Mystriosuchinae |
| Genus: | †Volcanosuchus Datta, Ray & Bandyopadhyay, 2019 |
| Type species | |
| †Volcanosuchus statisticae Datta, Ray & Bandyopadhyay, 2019
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Volcanosuchus is an extinct genus of phytosaur from the Late Triassic Tiki Formation in India. The type species is V. statisticae.[1]
References[]
- ^ Datta, Debajit; Ray, Sanghamitra; Bandyopadhyay, Saswati (2021). "Cranial morphology of a new phytosaur (Diapsida, Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic of India: implications for phytosaur phylogeny and biostratigraphy". Papers in Palaeontology. 7 (2): 675–708. doi:10.1002/spp2.1292. ISSN 2056-2802.
Categories:
- Phytosaurs
- Prehistoric reptile genera
- Late Triassic reptiles of Asia
- Triassic India
- Fossils of India
- Fossil taxa described in 2019
- Triassic reptile stubs