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Diandongosuchus
''Diandongosuchus'' is an extinct genus of poposauroid pseudosuchian from the Middle Triassic of China. The type species ''Diandongosuchus fuyuanensis'' was named in 2012 from the Falang Formation of Yunnan Province. It is a marine species of pseudosuchian that shows similarities with another Chinese Triassic species called ''Qianosuchus mixtus'', although it has fewer adaptations toward marine life. It is the basal-most member of the clade Poposauroidea.
==Description==
''Diandongosuchus'' is known from a nearly complete articulated skeleton (ZMNH M8770) missing most of the tail. The total length of ZMNH M8770 is and the estimated body length of the animal in life is around . The specimen is preserved on its right side, with the underside of the lower jaws and the trunk showing. It was prepared out of a limestone slab to reveal details on the left side of the skeleton, many of which are better preserved. The skull of ''Diandongosuchus'' is pointed, with oval-shaped eye sockets, antorbital and temporal openings. Distinctive features include a long premaxilla bone at the tip of the snout that extends backward past the nostril openings, a large ridge on the jugal bone that runs beneath the eye socket, and two supratemporal openings on the skull table that have prominent ridges surrounding them. The skull has similar proportions to that of ''Qianosuchus'', and has the same number of teeth in the premaxilla. Like the terrestrial poposauroid ''Poposaurus'', ''Diandongosuchus'' has a maxilla (upper jaw) bone that does not reach the border of the nostril opening.〔
ZMNH M8770 has 25 vertebrae in the back and neck, two sacral vertebrae (as in most Triassic pseudosuchians), and seven of the forward-most tail vertebrae. The neck vertebrae are taller and narrower than they are in ''Qianosuchus''. Most of the back vertebrae are obscured by overlying ribs. At the back of the trunk near the hips are bones belonging to small vertebrates such as fish - likely the stomach contents of the individual. Small overlapping osteoderms (bony scutes) overlay many of the vertebrae. Two rows run along the neck, back, and tail with about two osteoderms overlaying each vertebra. Small osteoderms also cover the limb bones.〔
Some features of the limbs, pelvic and pectoral girdles are also diagnostic in ''Diandongosuchus'', including a thick ischium bone in the hip, an opening of the coracoid bone in the pectoral girdle that is much larger than those of other archosaurs and is closed by the end of the scapula, and a fourth metatarsal bone in the foot that is longer than the other metatarsals. The scapula of ''Diandongosuchus'' is longer and narrower than that of ''Qianosuchus''. The iliac blade of the hip is unusual in that it is narrow and projects far back from the rest of the hip. As in ''Qianosuchus'', the femur of ''Diandongosuchus'' is slightly twisted, but the fibula is thinner and more curved. The astragalus and calcaneum bones of the ankle fit together like a ball-and-socket, a feature that confirms ''Diandongosuchus'' as a pseudosuchian. Some of the phalanges or toe bones are missing in ZMNH M8770, but the metatarsals are present and have unique proportions among Triassic archosaurs in which the fourth is longer than the third.〔
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