Caririsuchus
Caririsuchus Temporal range: Albian
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Superorder: | Crocodylomorpha |
Suborder: | †Notosuchia |
Family: | †Peirosauridae |
Genus: | †Caririsuchus Kellner 1987 |
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Caririsuchus is an extinct genus of peirosaurid[1] crocodylomorph. Fossils have been found from the Romualdo Formation of the Santana Group in the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil, dating back to the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous.[2] It was about 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in length.
References[]
- ^ C. F. C. Geroto and R. J. Bertini. 2018. New material of Pepesuchus (Crocodyliformes; Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Bauru Group: implications about its phylogeny and the age of the Adamantina Formation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185(2):312-334
- ^ Kellner, A. W. A. and Campos, D. A. (1999). Vertebrate Paleontology in Brazil - a review. Episodes 22:238-251.
Categories:
- Albian life
- Early Cretaceous crocodylomorphs of South America
- Cretaceous Brazil
- Fossils of Brazil
- Romualdo Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 1987
- Taxa named by Alexander Kellner
- Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera
- Prehistoric archosaur stubs