Mourasuchus

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Mourasuchus
Fossil range: Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Crocodilia
Suborder: Eusuchia
Superfamily: Alligatoroidea
Genus: Mourasuchus
Price, 1964
Species
  • M. amazonensis
  • M. nativus

Mourasuchus is an extinct genus of giant crocodilian from the Miocene of South America.

[edit] Sources

  • King of the Crocodylians: The Paleobiology of Deinosuchus (Life of the Past) by David R. Schwimmer
  • Functional Morphology in Vertebrate Paleontology by Jeffrey J. Thomason
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