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    a second valid species of Prestosuchus, Prestosuchus nyassicus, by Desojo et al. (2020). Like its relatives, Prestosuchus had a deep skull and serrated...
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  • the animal as having been congeneric with Prestosuchus chiniquensis, also named by him. While Prestosuchus chiniquensis saw several additional finds attributed...
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    more limited setting. In these studies it refers to a clade containing Prestosuchus, Saurosuchus, and Luperosuchus. Even so, the validity of this clade is...
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    They included giant, quadrupedal apex predators such as Saurosuchus, Prestosuchus, and Fasolasuchus. Ornithosuchids were large scavengers, while erpetosuchids...
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    growth rate, similar to most other "rauisuchians", with the exception of Prestosuchus. The same study also determined that the specimen was somatically and...
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    closely related to crocodylomorphs than to other "rauisuchians" (such as Prestosuchus and Saurosuchus). As a result, Rauisuchia in its traditional usage may...
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    feature was not present in Prestosuchus, which he excluded from the group. Later studies found support for a placement of Prestosuchus deep within Suchia, so...
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    loricatans at least as derived as Batrachotomus. However, a restudy of Prestosuchus by Da-Silvia et al. (2016) showed that the pit was present in basal loricatans...
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    crocodilians and some of their Triassic relatives, such as Postosuchus and Prestosuchus. More specifically, Loricata includes Crocodylomorpha (the persistent...
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    Batrachotomus was a more basal pseudosuchian only slightly more "advanced" than Prestosuchus. In addition, the toothless Lotosaurus has been found to be more closely...
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