Brachyuranochampsa

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Brachyuranochampsa
Temporal range: 83.5–46.2 Ma
Late Cretaceous - Eocene
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Crocodylomorpha
Order: Crocodilia
Superfamily: Crocodyloidea
Genus: †Brachyuranochampsa
Zangerl, 1944
Species
  • <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>B. eversolei Zangerl, 1944 (type)
  • <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>B. zangerli Mook, 1962

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Brachyuranochampsa is an extinct genus of crocodyloid crocodilians.

Although reported from as old as the late Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous,[1] the only robust occurrence of Brachyuranochampsa is B. eversolei from Wyoming.[2] Another species, B. zangerli from the lower Bridger Formation at Grizzly Buttes, has been synonymized with another primitive crocodyloid, "Crocodylus" affinis, also known from the Bridger Formation [3]

References

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External links

  1. Ryan, M. J., Russell, A. P., Eberth, D. A., and Currie, P. J. (2001). The taphonomy of a Centrosaurus (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) bone bed from th Dinosaur Park Formation (Upper Campanian), Alberta, Canada, with comments on cranial ontogeny. Palaios 16:482-506
  2. Zangerl, R. (1944). Brachyuranochampsa eversolei, gen. et sp. nov., a new crocodilian from the Washakie beds of Wyoming. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 30:77-84
  3. Brochu, C.A. (1997). Morphology, fossils, divergence timing, and the phylogenetic relationships of Gavialis. Systematic Biology 47:479-522