Dolichobrachium

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Dolichobrachium
Temporal range: Late Triassic
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Suchia
Clade: Paracrocodylomorpha
Clade: Poposauroidea
Family: Poposauridae
Genus: Dolichobrachium
Williston, 1904
Species
  • D. gracileWilliston, 1904 (type)

Dolichobrachium is a dubious genus of extinct poposaurid crurotarsan. Fossils have been found from the Popo Agie Formation in Wyoming and are of Late Triassic age. [1] It was one of the first rauisuchians to have been named.

References

  1. Carpenter, K. and Parrish, J. M., (1985). Late Triassic vertebrates from Revuelto Creek, Quay County, New Mexico. New Mexico. Geological Society Guidebook36:197-198.