Middle Triassic Taihangosuchus enters the LRT with Turfanosuchus
Taihangosuchus wuxiangens
(Wu et al 2025, Middle Triassic, China) nests with Turfanosuchus as a basal poposaur in the LRT, as originally recovered, despite the taxon exclusion issues for other taxa (e.g. Gracilisuchus is a basal bipedal crocodylomorph in the LRT due to the attraction of taxa omitted from Wu et al).
The LRT does not recover
the traditional clade, Pseudosuchia. Archosauria continues to include only crocs + dinos. Poposaurs are the proximal outgroup clade for the Archosauria.
Considered another way,
Taihangosuchus is the last common ancestor of Archosauria and the last common ancestor of Poposauria and the last common ancestor of Poposauria + Archosauria.
The cervicals are shorter here, as in ancestral taxa close to Decuriasuchus.
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References
Wu X-C et al 2026. Taihangosuchus wuxiangensis, a new gracilisuchid (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the Middle Triassic of Shanxi Province, China. Historical Biology,
DOI:10.1080/08912963.2025.2537848
wiki/Turfanosuchus
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Source: https://pterosaurheresies.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/middle-triassic-taihangosuchus-enters-the-lrt-with-turfanosuchus/
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