Fasolasuchus

Fasolasuchus
Temporal range: Norian
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Skeletal reconstruction and size comparison of both known specimens. More bones are preserved than those showcased, but they're unfigured in the literature
Fasolasuchus in front of the sauropod Lessemsaurus, in Singapore
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Genus: †Fasolasuchus
Bonaparte, 1981
Species:
†F. tenax
Binomial name
†Fasolasuchus tenax
Bonaparte, 1981

Fasolasuchus is an extinct genus of loricatan. Fossils have been found in the Los Colorados Formation of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin in northwestern Argentina that date back to the Norian stage of the Late Triassic, making it one of the last rauisuchians (an informal grouping of large pseudosuchians) to have existed before rauisuchians became extinct at the end of the Triassic. Fasolasuchus exceeds the size of other large "rauisuchians" and very large sebecids like Barinasuchus, making it the largest non-dinosaurian terrestrial predator known. It is known from two individuals of different sizes, found very close to each other, these represent partial cranial and postcranial remains.