Caririsuchus

Caririsuchus; Temporal range: Albian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Subclass:	Diapsida
Infraclass:	Archosauromorpha
(unranked):	Crurotarsi
Superorder:	Crocodylomorpha
(unranked):	Mesoeucrocodylia
Family:	Peirosauridae
Subfamily:	Pepesuchinae
Genus:	Caririsuchus; Kellner 1987
Species
	C. camposi Kellner 1987 (type);

Caririsuchus is an extinct genus of peirosaurid^[1] crocodylomorph. Fossils have been found from the Romualdo Formation of the Santana Group in the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil, dating back to the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous.^[2] It was about 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in length.

References

^ C. F. C. Geroto and R. J. Bertini. 2018. New material of Pepesuchus (Crocodyliformes; Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Bauru Group: implications about its phylogeny and the age of the Adamantina Formation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185(2):312-334
^ Kellner, A. W. A. and Campos, D. A. (1999). Vertebrate Paleontology in Brazil - a review. Episodes 22:238-251.

This article about a prehistoric archosaur is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.