[3] Most rauisuchids have a crest on the ilium called the supra-acetabular process that overlies the head of the femur, allowing them to have a "pillar-erect" stance.

For example, elongated anterior cervical vertebrae are present in the poposauroids, Yarasuchus, and in the non-archosaurian archosauriforms Proterosuchus and Guchengosuchus.

The ectepicondylar groove on the humerus reported by Ochev is present in Prolacerta, Proterosuchus, phytosaurs, aetosaurs and several paracrocodylomorphs.

According to Nesbitt (2009), this trait is absent in Archosauria with the possible exception of Arizonasaurus and Poposaurus, but was used as a synapomorphy of Erythrosuchia in Parrish (1992) phylogenetic analysis.

[3] Other vertebrates from the Berdyanka II locality that lived alongside Vjushkovisaurus include capitosauroid temnospondyls and the therapsid Nothogomphodon, one of the last therocephalians.