Effigia
Extinct genus of Archosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Effigia was an extinct genus of shuvosaurid known from the Late Triassic of New Mexico, south-western USA. With a bipedal stance, long neck, and a toothless beaked skull, Effigia and other shuvosaurids bore a resemblance to the ornithomimid dinosaurs of the Cretaceous Period. However, shuvosaurids were not dinosaurs, but were instead a specialized family of poposauroid pseudosuchians, meaning that their closest living relatives are crocodilians.[1][2][3]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Suchia |
Clade: | Paracrocodylomorpha |
Superfamily: | †Poposauroidea |
Family: | †Shuvosauridae |
Genus: | †Effigia Nesbitt and Norell, 2006 |
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