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Proterochampsa

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Proterochampsa
Temporal range: Carnian
~235.0–222 Ma
The holotype skull of Proterochampsa nodosa (MCP 1694) in dorsal view
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: Archosauriformes
Clade: †Proterochampsia
Family: †Proterochampsidae
Genus: †Proterochampsa
Reig 1959
Species
  • †P. barrionuevoi Reig 1959 (type)
  • †P. nodosa Barberena 1982

Proterochampsa is a genus of proterochampsid archosauromorph from the Late Triassic (Carnian) Cancha de Bochas Member of the Ischigualasto Formation in the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin in northwestern Argentina and the Alemoa Member of the Santa Maria Formation in the Paraná Basin in southeastern Brazil. Average length of skull of P. barrionuevoi is approximately 50 centimetres (20 in).[1]

Life restoration of Proterochampsa barrionuevoi

References

  1. ^ Dilkes, David; Arcucci, Andrea (2012). "Proterochampsa barrionuevoi (Archosauriformes: Proterochampsia) from the Late Triassic (Carnian) of Argentina and a phylogenetic analysis of Proterochampsia". Palaeontology. 55 (4): 853–885. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01170.x. ISSN 1475-4983.

Further reading

  • F. Abdala, M. C. Barberena, and J. Dornelles. 2002. A new species of the traversodontid cynodont Exaeretodon from the Santa Maria Formation (Middle/Late Triassic) of southern Brazil. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(2):313-325
  • * O. A. Reig. 1963. La presencia de dinosaurios saurisquios en los "Estratos de Ischigualasto" (Mesotriasico Superior) de las provincias de San Juan y La Rioja (República Argentina) [The presence of saurischian dinosaurs in the "Ischigualasto beds" (upper Middle Triassic) of San Juan and La Rioja Provinces (Argentine Republic)]. Ameghiniana 3(1):3-20
  • The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Change across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary by Kevin Padian


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