Itasuchus
Appearance
Itasuchus 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 |
Clade: | †Notosuchia |
Clade: | †Sebecosuchia |
Clade: | †Sebecia |
Family: | †Peirosauridae |
Genus: | †Itasuchus Price, 1955 |
Type species | |
†Itasuchus jesuinoi Price, 1955
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Itasuchus is an extinct genus of crocodylomorph from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil.[1] Fossils of the type species I. jesuinoi, first described in 1955 by Llewellyn Ivor Price, have been found from the Marília Formation (Maastrichtian age) in Uberaba, Brazil.[1]
It is known from a 370 mm skull, suggesting a total length of about 3 m (10 ft).[2]
References
- ^ a b Price, L. I. (1955). "Novos crocodilídeos dos arenitos da Série Bauru. Cretáceo do Estado de Minas Gerais". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 27: 487–498.
- ^ paleopedia.free.fr https://web.archive.org/web/20120208081931/http://paleopedia.free.fr/croco_metasuchia.html. Archived from the original on 2012-02-08.
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