Ticinosuchus

This statue is of the Ticinosuchus (Tick-eye-no-soo-cus), which means "Ticino crocodile" but this was not a dinosaur it is an extinct genus of suchian archosaur which was just before dinosaurs came about in the Triassic. It is described that it was about 3 meters (10 ft) 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 vertically. Coupled with the development of a calcaneus and a specialized ankle joint, this would have made Ticinosuchus a fast runner, unlike most earlier reptiles.