New poposauroid from Middle Triassic of Nevada - Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis

[VD231991]

Link to paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0136

Ichthyosaurs and sauropterygians have long been the only tetrapods known from the Favret Formation from which Benggwigwishingasuchus was unearthed, but Benggwigwishingasuchus is significant as the westernmost occurrence of a Middle Triassic suchian archosaur from western North America given that the fossil record of terrestrial diapsids from this region is still paltry. Although this taxon was found in a marine depositional environment, it shows skeletal features of the limbs matching those of terrestrial suchians, in which case the holotype of B. eremicarminis was swept out to sea like the holotypes of the non-avian dinosaurs Aletopelta, Augustynolophus, Claosaurus, and Niobrarasaurus.

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Such a cool find, I wouldn't have expected it in this location. I like the Shoshone name, too, even if it's a bit of a mouthful!