Dolichochampsa

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Dolichochampsa
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Neosuchia
Clade: Eusuchia
Family: †Dolichochampsidae
Gasparini & Buffetaut, 1980
Genus: †Dolichochampsa
Gasparini & Buffetaut, 1980
Type species
†Dolichochampsa minima
Gasparini & Buffetaut, 1980

Dolichochampsa is an extinct genus of eusuchian crocodylomorph. It is the type genus and only member of the family Dolichochampsidae.[1] Fossils have been found from Argentina and Bolivia of Maastrichtian age.[2] It had a distinctive slender snout.[3] Because the material associated with the specimens is so fragmentary, its relationships with other eusuchians remain unknown.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Gasparini, Z; Buffetaut, E. (1980). "Dolichochampsa minima, n.g.n.sp., a representative of a new family of eusuchian crocodiles from the Late Cretaceous of northern Argentina". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1980: 257–271. 
  2. ↑ Buffetaut, E. (1987). "Occurrence of the crocodilian Dolichochampsa minima (Eusuchia, Dolichochampsidae) in the El Molino Formation of Bolivia". Bulletin de la Société belge de géologie 96 (2): 195–199. 
  3. ↑ Brochu, C. A. (2001). "Crocodylian snouts in space and time: phylogenetic approaches toward adaptive radiation". American Zoologist 41 (3): 564–585. doi:10.1668/0003-1569(2001)041[0564:CSISAT]2.0.CO;2. 
  4. ↑ Salisbury, S. W.; Molnar, R. E.; Frey, E.; Willis, P. M. A. (2006). "The origin of modern crocodyliforms: new evidence from the Cretaceous of Australia". Proceedings. Biological sciences / the Royal Society 273 (1600): 2439–2448. doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.3613. 
 
Major clades
 
Eusuchians
Crocodylia
Others


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