Name: <em>Ticinosuchus</em> Brooch <br>Rhodium Plated
SKU: 900201
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Ticinosuchus Brooch Rhodium Plated

Ticinosuchus Brooch
Rhodium Plated

Lovely Rhodium Plated Brooch, hand-polished to a mild sheen resembling white gold. Broch needle with safety closure in German Silver.

incl. 8,1% VAT plus Shipping Costs

Delivery time: 3-4 weeks

SKU: 900201

Brooch

Length: 7 cm
Width: 1.7 cm
Thickness: 0.2 cm
Weight: 7 g

PALAEOLOVE jewellery is stamped with our jewellery mark «PL» to prove its authenticity. Please contact us by email if you prefer a different material or size or a jewellery of a taxon not yet produced: office@palaeolove.com.

PALAEOLOVE artwork and art wares are recognizable due to their scientifically accurate visualisation that is accompanied by sound, science-based information. Our products are designed in Switzerland and analogously & digitally handmade in Switzerland and other European countries under the guidance of experts, true to the motto: «Science meets Design»!

The abbreviation «MIO» (= million, after the German national standard DIN 5008) – occasionally found on our goods and product pages to indicate the geological age of fossil taxa – is equivalent to «MYA» (= million years ago).

Depicted Animal

Ticinosuchus ferox KREBS, 1965
2.5 M 243 MYA

Systematics: Rauisuchidae, Suchia, Pseudosuchia, Crurotarsi, Archosauria, Diapsida, Reptilia
Habitat: terestrial; lowlands

A terrestrial predator from the Besano Formation (= Grenzbitumenzone, Middle Triassic) of Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland, that is amongst others characterized by a vertical ankle joint (LAUTENSCHLAGER & DESOJO 2011, NESBITT 2011).

With the description of the vertical ankle joint (= crocodiloid tarsus) in Ticinosuchus and Crocodylia by KREBS (1963, 1965, 1973, 1976) it was for the first time possible to establish a sister group relationship within the «Thecodontia» OWEN, 1859 («animals with rooted teeth»), the now obsolete former waste basket for early archosaurs. The discovery of the vertical ankle joint was the basis for the modern classification of the Archosauria («ruling reptiles»), namely the dichotomous subdivision of its crown-groups into Crurotarsi (= Crocodilotarsi) with a vertical ankle joint and Ornithodira (pterosaurs, dinosaurs and their relatives) with an advanced mesotarsal ankle joint.

KREBS, B. (1963): Bau und Funktion des Tarsus eines Pseudosuchiers aus der Trias des Monte San Giorgio (Kanton Tessin, Schweiz). – Paläontologische Zeitschrift 37 (1/2): 88-95.
KREBS, B. (1965): Ticinosuchus ferox nov. gen. nov. sp. Ein neuer Pseudosuchier aus der Trias des Monte San Giorgio. – Schweizerische paläontologische Abhandlungen 81: 1-140.
KREBS, B. (1973): Der Tarsus von Rauisuchus (Pseudosuchia, Mittel-Trias). – Mitteilungen der bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie 13: 95-101.
KREBS, B. (1976): Pseudosuchia. – In: O. KUHN (ed), Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie 13: 40-98.
LAUTENSCHLAGER, S. & DESOJO, J.B. (2011): Reassessment of the Middle Triassic rauisuchian archosaurs Ticinosuchus ferox and Stagonosuchus nyassicus. – Paläontologische Zeitschrift 85 (4): 357-381.
NESBITT, S. (2011): The early evolution of archosaurs: relationships and the origin of major clades. – Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 352: 1-292.