Kambara

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iKambara
Fossil range: Eocene - Oligocene
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Crocodilia
Family: Crocodylidae
Subfamily: Mekosuchinae
Genus: Kambara
Willis & Molnar, 1993
Species
  • K. murgonensis Willis & Molnar, 1993 (type)
  • K. implexidens Salisbury & Willis, 1996

Kambara is an extinct genus of Crocodylian that lived during the Eocene and Oligocene of Australia.

The two similar species of Kambara described so far (K. murgonensis and K. implexidens) were both discovered in the Eocene site at Murgon, south-east Queensland. The estimated length of these animals were 1.5 m.

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