Dolichobrachium

Dolichobrachium
Temporal range: Late Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Suchia
Clade: Paracrocodylomorpha
Branch: †Poposauroidea
Family: †Poposauridae
Genus: †Dolichobrachium
Williston, 1904
Species
  • †D. gracile Williston, 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 Guidebook 36:197-198.
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