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family of theropod-like
pseudosuchians within the
clade Poposauroidea.
Shuvosaurids existed in
North America (United States) and
South America (Argentina)...
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Poposauroidea is a
clade of
advanced pseudosuchians. It
includes poposaurids,
shuvosaurids, ctenosauriscids, and
other unusual pseudosuchians such as Qianosuchus...
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Sillosuchus is a
genus of
shuvosaurid poposauroid archosaur that
lived in
South America during the Late Tri****ic period.
Shuvosaurids were an
unusual family...
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Effigia and
other shuvosaurids bore a
resemblance to the
ornithomimid dinosaurs of the
Cretaceous Period. However,
shuvosaurids were not dinosaurs,...
- such as
Poposaurus and Postosuchus. The bizarre, ornithomimid-like
shuvosaurids were both
bipedal and herbivorous, with
toothless beaks. Many of these...
- and
therefore it is not
included in the Ctenosauriscidae.
Although shuvosaurids walked on two legs and
lacked sails,
their toothless beaks and presumed...
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later ornithomimid theropods as well as the
earlier non-dinosaurian
shuvosaurids.
Limusaurus was the
first known member of the
group Ceratosauria from...
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other Tri****ic
pseudosuchians like
ctenosauriscids and
shuvosaurids. Like Poposaurus,
shuvosaurids were bipedal. When the
specimen YPM VP 057100 was described...
- crocodylomorphs, are from the
latter part of the Late Tri****ic. The
shuvosaurid Effigia, from the "siltstone member" of the
Chinle Formation in New Mexico...
- and
Smilosuchus with a
length of more than 7 m (23 ft). The
largest shuvosaurid and one of the
largest pseudosuchian from the Tri****ic
period was Sillosuchus...
