Arganasuchus is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of rauisuchid

Rauisuchidae

Rauisuchidae is a group of large predatory Triassic archosaurs, and constitute advanced representatives of the larger group Rauisuchia. There is some disagreement over which genera should be included in the Prestosuchidae, which in Rauisuchidae, and which in the Poposauridae, and indeed whether...

 archosaur

Archosaur

Archosaurs are a group of diapsid amniotes whose living representatives consist of modern birds and crocodilians. This group also includes all extinct non-avian dinosaurs, many extinct crocodilian relatives, and pterosaurs. Archosauria, the archosaur clade, is a crown group that includes the most...

. Its fossil

Fossil

Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals , plants, and other organisms from the remote past...

s have been found in Upper Triassic rocks of the Argana Basin, Morocco

Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

. It is based on remains found in the 1970s and initially thought to belong to the rauisuchia

Rauisuchia

Rauisuchia is a group of predatory and mostly large Triassic archosaurs. As a clade, Rauisuchia includes these Triassic forms and all crocodylomorphs, which are descendants of Triassic rauisuchians. The group in its traditional sense is paraphyletic, because it does not include crocodylomorph...

n Ticinosuchus

Ticinosuchus

Ticinosuchus is an extinct genus of rauisuchian archosaur from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland and Italy.Ticinosuchus was about long, and its whole body, even the belly, was covered in thick, armoured scutes. The structure of the hips shows that its legs were placed under the body almost...

. Bones recovered include part of the upper jaws, neck vertebrae, and hip bones

Pelvis

In human anatomy, the pelvis is the lower part of the trunk, between the abdomen and the lower limbs .The pelvis includes several structures:...

. Arganasuchus was described in 2007 by Nour-Eddine Jalil and Karin Peyer. The type species

Type species

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 is A. dutuiti. Arganasuchus had several anatomical details in common with the rauisuchids Batrachotomus

Batrachotomus

Batrachotomus is a genus of prehistoric archosaur. Fossils of this animal have been found in southern Germany and dated from the Ladinian stage of Middle Triassic period, around 228 to 231 million years ago. Batrachotomus was described by palaeontologist David J...

, Fasolasuchus

Fasolasuchus

Fasolasuchus is an extinct genus of rauisuchid rauisuchian. Fossils have been found from Argentina that date back to the Rhaetian stage of the Late Triassic, making it one of the last rauisuchians to have existed before the order went extinct at the end of the Triassic...

, and Postosuchus

Postosuchus

Postosuchus, meaning "crocodile from Post ", was a basal archosaur that lived in what is now North America during the middle through to the late Triassic period...

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