Jaikosuchus

Jaikosuchus is an extinct genus of proterosuchid archosauriform. It contains a single species, J. magnus. Fossils have been found from European Russia that date back to the upper Olenekian stage of the Early Triassic.^[2]

Jaikosuchus Temporal range: 251.3 –247.2 Ma[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Early Triassic (Olenekian)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauromorpha
Clade:	Archosauriformes
Family:	†Proterosuchidae
Subfamily:	†Chasmatosuchinae
Genus:	†Jaikosuchus Sennikov, 1990
Species:	†J. magnus
Binomial name
†Jaikosuchus magnus (Ochev, 1979)
Synonyms
Chasmatosuchus magnus Ochev, 1979

The genus was originally assigned as a new species of the proterosuchid Chasmatosuchus in 1979, but was later put in its own genus in 1990. It has often been described as an erythrosuchid, a rauisuchian or a basal suchian closely related to rauisuchians rather than the more traditional view of it being a more primitive archosaur.^[3][4] In 2016, it was synonymized again with Chasmatosuchus by Ezcurra et al., but was revived as a distinct genus by Ezcurra et al. again in a 2023 overview of proterosuchid taxonomy, who found its vertebral morphology to be distinct from that of Chasmatosuchus. Both were placed in the new subfamily Chasmatosuchinae.^[5][6]