Miadanasuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Sauropsida |
Subclass: | Diapsida |
Infraclass: | Archosauromorpha |
(unranked): | Crurotarsi |
Superorder: | Crocodylomorpha |
(unranked): | Mesoeucrocodylia |
Family: | Trematochampsidae |
Genus: | Miadanasuchus Simons & Buckley, 2009 |
Species | |
M. oblita Buffetaut & Taquet, 1979(originally Trematochampsa oblita) (type) |
Miadanasuchus is an extinct genus of trematochampsid which existed in the Maevarano Formation of Madagascar during the late Cretaceous period (Campanian age).[1] It was first named by Erin L. Rasmusson Simons and Gregory A. Buckley in 2009 and the type species is Miadanasuchus oblita.[1]