Syntomiprosopus

Syntomiprosopus
Temporal range: Late Triassic, Norian ~
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Crocopoda
Clade: Archosauriformes
Genus: †Syntomiprosopus
Heckert et al., 2021
Species:
†S. sucherorum
Binomial name
†Syntomiprosopus sucherorum
Heckert et al., 2021

Syntomiprosopus (meaning "short face") is an extinct genus of archosauriform, possibly a crocodylomorph from the Late Triassic period of Arizona. The type and only known species is S. sucherorum. Syntomiprosopus was unusually short-snouted, comparable to the Late Cretaceous notosuchian Simosuchus, and is regarded as an example of convergent evolution between Triassic stem-archosaurs and Cretaceous archosaurs.

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