Purranisaurus
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| Purranisaurus Fossil range: Late Jurassic |
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Purranisaurus is an extinct genus of marine crocodyliform from the Late Jurassic period of the Tithonian of Argentina. Rusconi originally regarded Purranisaurus potens to be a plesiosaur, however, Gasparini (1975) demonstrated that it was in fact a metriorhynchid crocodyliform, and that it was a junior synonym of Metriorhynchus.
[edit] References
- Rusconi, C. (1948). Nuevo plesiosaurio, pez y langostas del mar jurasico de Mendoza. Mendoza, Mus. Hist. Nat., Rev. 2: 3-12
- Gasparini, Z. (1975). Revison de ?Purranisaurus potens RUSCONI, 1948 (Crocodilia, Thalattosuchia). Los Thalattosuchia como un nuevo Infraorden de los Crocodilia. Actas del Congreso Geologico Argentino 5: 423-431
