Redondavenator

Redondavenator; Temporal range: Late Triassic,
	Diagram of preserved snout bones
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauria
Clade:	Pseudosuchia
Clade:	Crocodylomorpha
Genus:	†Redondavenator; Nesbitt et al., 2005
Type species
	†Redondavenator quayensis; Nesbitt et al., 2005

Redondavenator (meaning "Redonda Formation hunter") is a genus of sphenosuchian, a type of basal crocodylomorph, the clade that comprises the crocodilians and their closest kin. It is known from a partial upper jaw and left shoulder girdle found in rocks of the Norian-Rhaetian-age Upper Triassic Redonda Formation, northeastern New Mexico. It is notable for its large size; the minimum estimated skull length for the holotype individual is 60 centimetres (2.0 ft).^[1]^[2] This makes it the largest Triassic crocodylomorph ever recorded.^[3]

^ Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Irmis, Randall B.; Lucas, Spencer G.; Hunt, Adrian P. (2005). "A giant crocodylomorph from the Upper Triassic of New Mexico". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 79 (4): 471–478. doi:10.1007/bf02988373. S2CID 128541365.
^ Crocodylomorpha. Crocodiles and their relatives, archive copy from 20 June 2022.
^ Lindsay E. Zanno, Susan Drymala, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Vincent P. Schneider (2015) Early crocodylomorph increases top tier predator diversity during rise of dinosaurs. Scientific Reports volume 5, Article number: 9276