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Chroniosuchus skull
Skull of Chroniosuchus paradoxus (after Golubev 1998.)
Chroniosuchus is
an extinct genus of reptiliomorph from the Late Permian period
(upper Tatarian phase), found in deposits in Russia in
the Arkhangelsk, Orenburg and Vologda Regions. The genus was first
identified in 1957 by Vjuschkov, and the type species is Chroniosuchus paradoxus. The genus was originally classified as an amphibian and athracosauromorph, but has since been reclassified as a reptiliomorph.
Chroniosuchus had a length of about 1.5 m or 5 ft.
References:
V. K. Golubev (1998). Revision of the Late Permian Chroniosuchians (Amphibia, Anthracosauromorpha) from Eastern Europe. Paleontological Journal. 32 (4): 390–401.
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