Bretesuchus

Bilateria

Bretesuchus
Temporal range: Paleocene
Scientific classification
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Crocodylomorpha
Suborder: †Notosuchia
(unranked): †Sebecosuchia
clade: †Sebecia
Family: †Bretesuchidae
Genus: †Bretesuchus
Gasparini et al., 1993
Species
  • †B. bonapartei Gasparini et al., 1993 (type)

Bretesuchus is an extinct genus of sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian within the family Bretesuchidae. Fossils have been found from the Maíz Gordo Formation of northwestern Argentina and date back to the late Paleocene. The highly bent premaxilla shows that it lies within the suborder Sebecosuchia, a group of mostly South American terrestrial carnivorous crocodylomorphs with distinctive laterally compressed snouts.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Gasparini, Z.; Fernandez, M.; Powell, J. (1993). "New Tertiary sebecosuchians (Crocodylomorpha) from South America: phylogenetic implications". Historical Biology 7: 1–19. doi:10.1080/10292389309380440. 
  2. ^ Turner, A. H.; Calvo, J. O. (2005). "A new sebecosuchian crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 (1): 87–98. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0087:ANSCFT]2.0.CO;2.