Aegyptosuchus
Appearance
Aegyptosuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Family: | †Aegyptosuchidae |
Genus: | †Aegyptosuchus Stromer, 1933 |
Type species | |
†Aegyptosuchus peyeri Stromer, 1933
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Aegyptosuchus ("Egyptian crocodile") is an extinct genus of aegyptosuchid eusuchian crocodyliform. This taxon was coined by Kuhn (1936) as a monotypic family-level taxon redundant with the Cretaceous genus Aegyptosuchus. Carroll (1988) classified the genus in the family Stomatosuchidae. Only one species is descript, Aegyptosuchus peyeri.
References
- Steel, R. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie part 16. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, 1973.
- Carroll, R. L. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. W. H Freeman Company, 1988.