Heptasuchus

Heptasuchus
Temporal range: Middle - Late Triassic,
Diagram of known skull elements
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Loricata
Genus: †Heptasuchus
Dawley et al., 1979
Type species
†Heptasuchus clarki
Dawley et al., 1979

Heptasuchus is an extinct genus of loricatan pseudosuchian known from the Middle or Late Triassic upper Chugwater Group of Wyoming, United States. It contains a single species, Heptasuchus clarki, the first formally recognized "rauisuchian" or loricatan pseudosuchian from North America.

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