Maomingosuchus
| Maomingosuchus Temporal range: Late Eocene (Priabonian),
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| Two fossils, Zhejiang Natural History Museum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Clade: | Archosauriformes |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Genus: | †Maomingosuchus Shan et al., 2017 |
| Species: | †M. petrolica
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| †Maomingosuchus petrolica (Yeh, 1958)
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Maomingosuchus is an extinct genus of tomistomine from Eocene deposits of China. The type species, "Tomistoma petrolica" was named in 1958[1] and was redescribed as Maomingosuchus in 2017.[2]
References
- ^ H.-K. Yeh. 1958. A new crocodile from Maoming, Kwangtung. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 2(4):237-242
- ^ Hsi-Yin Shan; Xiao-Chun Wu; Yen-Nien Cheng; Tamaki Sato (2017). "Maomingosuchus petrolica, a restudy of "Tomistoma" petrolica Yeh, 1958". Palaeoworld. 26 (4): 672–690. doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2017.03.006.
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