Mahajangasuchus
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| Mahajangasuchus Fossil range: Late Cretaceous |
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 Mahajangasuchus insignis
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Mahajangasuchus is an extinct genus of crocodyliform which had blunt, conical teeth. The type species, M. insignis, lived during the Late Cretaceous; its fossils have been found in the Maevarano Formation in northern Madagascar.
Sereno et al.. (2001) placed the genus within the family Trematochampsidae, although a more recent study by Turner and Calvo (2005) placed it within Peirosauridae.
[edit] References
- Buckley, G.A. (2001). "A skull of Mahajangasuchus insignis (Crocodyliformes) from the Upper Cretaceous of Madagascar". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21 (3), supplement: A36
- Rogers, Raymond R., David W. Krause and Kristina Curry Rogers (2003). "Cannibalism in the Madagascan dinosaur Majungatholus atopus". Nature 422: 515-518.
[edit] External links
- Turner, Alan H. (2004). "Crocodyliform biogeography during the Cretaceous: evidence of Gondwanan vicariance from biogeographical analysis". Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 271: 2003-2009 DOI 10.1098/rspb.2004.2840
