Arambourgia

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Arambourgia
Temporal range: Eocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: Archosauriformes
Order: Crocodilia
Family: Alligatoridae
Subfamily: Alligatorinae
Genus: Arambourgia
Type species
Arambourgia gaudryi
(de Stefano, 1905)

Arambourgia is an extinct genus of alligatorine crocodylian from Europe. It was named in 1905 and synonymized with Allognathosuchus haupti in 1990,[1] but later reassigned as its own genus once again in 2004.[2] It is thought to have been closely related to Hispanochampsa and Procaimanoidea. Arambourgia was likely to have been part of an early dispersal event of alligatorines from North America to Europe during the Eocene epoch. Arambourgia had non-serrated teeth and a deep altirostral snout, unlike the flatter snouts of most other alligatorids.

References

  1. ^ Rauhe, M. (1990). "Habit-Habitus-Wechselbeziehung von Allognathosuchus gaudryi Stefano 1905 (=Allognathosuchus haupti Weitzel 1935)". Geologisches Jahrbuch Hessen. 118: 53–61.
  2. ^ Brochu, Christopher A. (2004). "Alligatorine phylogeny and the status of Allognathosuchus Mook, 1921". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24 (4): 857–873. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2004)024[0857:APATSO]2.0.CO;2.