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Archosaur of the day!
Sillosuchus longicervix is a species of shuvosaurid Paracrocodylomorph from the Late Triassic in what is now South America. The closest modern relatives of sillosuchus, and shuvosaurids in general, are crocodilians.
(Art by Gabriel Ugueto)

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2021-02-15

When I was in paleo research I helped describe a shuvosaurid. A little beaked, plant-eating crocodilian relative that was trying to be a dinosaur.

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2020-05-07

Beaks have appeared separately numerous times in tetrapod evolution. I have depicted 5 examples here: dicynodonts (top left), pantestudines (center), rhynchosaurs (top right), shuvosaurid pseudosuchians (bottom left) and ceratopsian dinosaurs (bottom right)

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2019-09-25

Sillosuchus (from the Late Triassic Ischigualasto formation of Argentina) was NOT a dinosaur but one of the various bipedal and dinosaur-like distant croc-relatives (#pseudosuchians). It belonged to a group of beaked, herbivorous bipeds know as Shuvosaurids

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2019-06-30