New 250 Million Year Old Proterosuchid Discovered- Samsarasuchus pamelea

[Prehistory Resurrection]

Link to article: https://www.newsweek.com/new-species-croc-like-creature-250-million-years-ago-discovered-1837080

[Halichoeres]

Diagram of the vertebral series:


The full description is open access!

[Stegotyranno420]

Awesome, I love early archosauriformes.

[VD231991]

The full text of the paper describing Samsarasuchus happens to create a new subfamily of Proterosuchidae, Chasmatosuchinae, to include Samsarasuchus, the Late Permian archosauriform Archosaurus from European Russia and the problematic taxa Chasmatosuchus, Gamosaurus, Jaikosuchus, Tsylmosuchus, and Vonhuenia from the Early Triassic of European Russia based on the results of cladistic analysis and comparisons of the Samsarasuchus specimens with vertebral material of Chasmatosuchus, Gamosaurus, Jaikosuchus, Tsylmosuchus, and Vonhuenia. I remember that Tsylmosuchus was originally described as a member of Rauisuchidae when first named in 1990 but was later reassigned to Archosauriformes incertae sedis due to the proportions of its cervical vertebrae not being exclusive to rauisuchids, and although Sennikov (2022) considered Scythosuchus a possible junior synonym of Tsylmosuchus donensis (his paper assigned Scythosuchus and Tsylmosuchus donensis to Ctenosauriscidae), the paper describing Samsarasuchus does not support a synonymy of Tsylmosuchus donensis or even the Tsylmosuchus type species with Scythosuchus.

Sennikov, A.G., 2022. On pseudosuchians Tsylmosuchus donensis and Scythosuchus basileus from the Early Triassic of Eastern Europe. Paleontological Journal 56 (1): 91–96.

[Stegotyranno420]

Its pretty cool we now have 2 archosaurs named after Scythians and/or their relatives, Scythosuchus and Samsarasuchus being those .

[VD231991]

Its pretty cool we now have 2 archosaurs named after Scythians and/or their relatives, Scythosuchus and Samsarasuchus being those .

Scythosuchus is named for the Scythians because the Volgograd Oblast where Scythosuchus was found was part of the domain north of the Russian Caucasus where the Scythians dwelt after immigrating from Central Asia. Samsarasuchus is named after the Sanskrit word Saṁsāra (Samsara), which in Hinduism is related to the cycle of re-birth, existence and death, because the Early Triassic interval during which Samsarasuchus lived was a time of the re-birth of ecosystems after the mass extinction at the end of the Permian period.

[Stegotyranno420]

Its pretty cool we now have 2 archosaurs named after Scythians and/or their relatives, Scythosuchus and Samsarasuchus being those .

Scythosuchus is named for the Scythians because the Volgograd Oblast where Scythosuchus was found was part of the domain north of the Russian Caucasus where the Scythians dwelt after immigrating from Central Asia. Samsarasuchus is named after the Sanskrit word Saṁsāra (Samsara), which in Hinduism is related to the cycle of re-birth, existence and death, because the Early Triassic interval during which Samsarasuchus lived was a time of the re-birth of ecosystems after the mass extinction at the end of the Permian period.

Well either way it is Aryan-related.