''Suchoprion'' is a dubious

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phytosaur Phytosaurs (Φυτόσαυροι in Greek, meaning 'plant lizard') are an extinct group of large, mostly semiaquatic Late Triassic archosauriform or basal archosaurian reptiles. Phytosaurs belong to the order Phytosauria and are sometimes ref ...

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archosaur Archosauria () or archosaurs () is a clade of diapsid sauropsid tetrapods, with birds and crocodilians being the only extant taxon, extant representatives. Although broadly classified as reptiles, which traditionally exclude birds, the cladistics ...

known from poor remains from the

Late Triassic The Late Triassic is the third and final epoch (geology), epoch of the Triassic geologic time scale, Period in the geologic time scale, spanning the time between annum, Ma and Ma (million years ago). It is preceded by the Middle Triassic Epoch a ...

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. It was once thought to be a

theropod Theropoda (; from ancient Greek , (''therion'') "wild beast"; , (''pous, podos'') "foot"">wiktionary:ποδός"> (''pous, podos'') "foot" is one of the three major groups (clades) of dinosaurs, alongside Ornithischia and Sauropodom ...

dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic Geological period, period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the #Evolutio ...

until 2013, when it was reclassified as a

. Edward Drinker Cope named the genus ''Suchoprion'' in 1877 on the basis of a single species: ''S. cyphodon'' (the type), known only from weathered teeth (AMNH FR 2331A).Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1877. Descriptions of extinct Vertebrata from the Permian and Triassic formations of the United States. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17(100):182-193 The second species, ''S. sulcidens'', was named in 1878. Both species were found in Wheatley's Copper Mines, Emigsville in

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George Olshevsky's Dinosaur Genera ListThe Paleobiology Database
Phytosauria Prehistoric reptile genera Late Triassic reptiles of North America Triassic geology of Pennsylvania Paleontology in Pennsylvania Nomina dubia Fossil taxa described in 1877 Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope {{triassic-reptile-stub