Dianosuchus is an extinct genus of protosuchid crocodyliform. Fossils have been found from the Dark Red Beds of the Lower Lufeng Formation in Yunnan, China, dating back to the Sinemurian stage of the Early Jurassic.[1][2] It is characterized by an unusually flattened snout compared to other protosuchians, conical isodont teeth that lacked striations, and very small antorbital fenestrae.[3]
| Dianosuchus Temporal range: Early Jurassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Family: | †Protosuchidae |
| Genus: | †Dianosuchus Young, 1982 |
| Species: | †D. changchiawaensis
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| †Dianosuchus changchiawaensis Young, 1982
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References
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- ^ Dianosuchus at the Paleobiology Database
- ^ Young, C.-C. (1982). On a primitive crocodile from Lufeng, Yunnnan. Selected Works on Yang Zhungijang. Science Press, Beijing pp. 26–28.
- ^ Lucas, S. G. (2001). Chinese fossil vertebrates. Columbia University Press, 375 pp.
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