Dolichochampsa
| Dolichochampsa Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Clade: | Neosuchia |
| Clade: | Eusuchia |
| Family: | †Dolichochampsidae Gasparini & Buffetaut, 1980 |
| Genus: | †Dolichochampsa Gasparini & Buffetaut, 1980 |
| Type species | |
| †Dolichochampsa minima Gasparini & Buffetaut, 1980
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Dolichochampsa is an extinct genus of eusuchian crocodylomorph. It is the type genus and only member of the family Dolichochampsidae.[1] Fossils have been found from Argentina and Bolivia of Maastrichtian age.[2] It had a distinctive slender snout.[3] Because the material associated with the specimens is so fragmentary, its relationships with other eusuchians remain unknown.[4]
References
- ^ Gasparini, Z; Buffetaut, E. (1980). "Dolichochampsa minima, n.g.n.sp., a representative of a new family of eusuchian crocodiles from the Late Cretaceous of northern Argentina". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte. 1980: 257–271.
- ^ Buffetaut, E. (1987). "Occurrence of the crocodilian Dolichochampsa minima (Eusuchia, Dolichochampsidae) in the El Molino Formation of Bolivia". Bulletin de la Société belge de géologie. 96 (2): 195–199.
- ^ Brochu, C. A. (2001). "Crocodylian snouts in space and time: phylogenetic approaches toward adaptive radiation". American Zoologist. 41 (3): 564–585. doi:10.1668/0003-1569(2001)041[0564:CSISAT]2.0.CO;2.
- ^ Salisbury, S. W.; Molnar, R. E.; Frey, E.; Willis, P. M. A. (2006). "The origin of modern crocodyliforms: new evidence from the Cretaceous of Australia". Proceedings. Biological sciences / the Royal Society. 273 (1600): 2439–2448. doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.3613.
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