Strigosuchus is an extinct genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of crurotarsan from the Early Jurassic

Early Jurassic

The Early Jurassic epoch is the earliest of three epochs of the Jurassic period...

 of China

China

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. Remains have been found from the Lower Lufeng Series

Lower Lufeng Series

The Lower Lufeng Series is a Lower Jurassic sedimentary rock formation found in Yunnan, China. It has two units: the lower Dull Purplish Beds are of Hettangian age, and Dark Red Beds are of Sinemurian age. It is known for its fossils of early dinosaurs...

 in Yunnan

Yunnan

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. The genus was named by paleontologist D.J. Simmons in 1965 with the type species

Type species

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 being S. licinus. Although originally classified as an ornithosuchid, the fragmentary holotype

Holotype

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 specimen of Strigosuchus has been suggested to be from a sphenosuchia

Sphenosuchia

Sphenosuchia is a suborder of basal crocodylomorphs that first appeared in the Triassic and occurred into the Late Jurassic. Most were small, gracile animals with an erect limb posture. They are now thought to be ancestral to crocodyliforms, which include all living crocodilians.-Stratigraphic...

n rather than an ornithosuchid. Other Lufeng crocodylomorphs found in association with Strigosuchus include the protosuchia

Protosuchia

Protosuchia is a group of extinct Mesozoic crocodyliforms. They were small in size and terrestrial. In phylogenetic terms, Protosuchia is considered an informal group because it is a grade of basal crocodyliforms, not a true clade....

n Platyognathus

Platyognathus

Platyognathus is an extinct genus of protosuchian crocodylomorph. Fossils are known from the Early Jurassic Lower Lufeng Formation in Yunnan, China and belong to the type and only species, P. hsui.-Description:...

and the sphenosuchian Dibothrosuchus

Dibothrosuchus

Dibothrosuchus is a genus of sphenosuchian, a type of basal crocodylomorph, the clade that comprises the crocodilians and their closest kin. It is known from several partial skeletons and skulls. These fossils were found in Lower Jurassic rocks of Yunnan, China...

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