Sillosuchus
| Sillosuchus Temporal range: Carnian
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| Skeletal reconstruction and size comparison of the holotype | |
| Mount in Mori Art Museum Gallery, Japan (most of the skeleton is hypothetical) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Paracrocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | †Poposauroidea |
| Family: | †Shuvosauridae |
| Genus: | †Sillosuchus Alcober & Parrish 1997 |
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Sillosuchus is a genus of large (femur length = 47 cm (19 in) in the holotype) shuvosaurid poposauroid archosaur that lived in South America during the Late Triassic period. Shuvosaurids were an unusual family of reptiles belonging to the group Poposauroidea; although their closest modern relatives are crocodilians, they were bipedal and lightly armored, with dinosaur-like hip and skull structures. Based on skull remains from members of the family such as Effigia, they were also toothless and likely beaked herbivores.