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Rutiodon (meaning "wrinkle tooth") is an
extinct genus of
mystriosuchine phytosaurs from the Late Tri****ic of the
eastern United States. The type species...
- node-based definition: "all taxa the
least inclusive clade containing Rutiodon carolinensis (Emmons, 1856), and
Crocodylus niloticus (Laurenti, 1768)...
- and
Machaeroprosopus with
Rutiodon has led some
paleontologists to
believe that the
prior two were
synonymous with
Rutiodon, with the latter's name having...
- in 1930. Most
species have been re****igned to the
genera Smilosuchus,
Rutiodon, or Phytosaurus.
Until recently, M.
validus was
considered to be the only...
- as a whole. The
clade Phytosauria was
defined by Paul
Sereno in 2005 as
Rutiodon carolinensis and all taxa more
closely related to it than to Aetosaurus...
- to
Rutiodon, and most
phylogenetic analyses retain Jupijkam as a
Rutiodon-grade
phytosaur (i.e., a non-leptosuchomorph mystriosuchine). Most
Rutiodon-grade...
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present but rare in Arizona's Late Tri****ic deposits. The
phytosaurid Rutiodon lived here as well.
Fossils attributed to the
possible dinosaur Tecovasaurus...
- is also
greatly dorsoventrally expanded and
rounded posteriorly as in
Rutiodon, Protome, Leptosuchus,
Smilosuchus and "Phytosaurus" doughtyi. As in "Machaeroprosopus"...
- to as
Galtonia gibbidens left
behind some
teeth in the
Emigsville area.
Rutiodon fossils were
preserved in York
County along the
Little Conewago Cr****....
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skulls that were included. This
grouping sits
alongside Volcanosuchus,
Rutiodon and the
clade formed by
Angistorhinus and
Brachysuchus at the base of Mystriosuchinae...
