Zatomus
| Zatomus Temporal range: Late Triassic
| |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Genus: | †Zatomus Cope, 1871 |
| Species | |
| |
Zatomus is an extinct genus of pseudosuchian from the Late Triassic. Fossil remains have been found in North Carolina, United States. It is classified as a rauisuchian, a type of large carnivorous thecodontian archosaur, and was once thought to be a dinosaur.[1]
References[]
- ^ Cope, E.D. (1871). "Observations on the distribution of certain extinct Vertebrata in North Carolina". Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 12: pp. 210-216
Categories:
- Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera
- Prehistoric archosauriforms
- Late Triassic archosaurs of North America
- Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope
- Fossil taxa described in 1871
- Triassic reptile stubs