Trematochampsa

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Trematochampsa
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Subclass: Diapsida
Infraclass: Archosauromorpha
(unranked): Crurotarsi
Superorder: Crocodylomorpha
(unranked): Mesoeucrocodylia
Family: Trematochampsidae
Genus: Trematochampsa
Buffetaut, 1974
Species
  • T. taqueti Buffetaut, 1974 (type)
  • T. oblita Buffetaut & Taquet, 1979[1][moved to Miadanasuchus in 2009 by Simons & Buckley[2]]

Trematochampsa is an extinct genus of crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian age) In Beceten Formation of Niger. The type species, T. taqueti, was described by Eric Buffetaut in 1974.[3] A second species, T. oblita, was named from Madagascar in 1979. It became the type species of Miadanasuchus in 2009.[2]

Trematochampsa gives its name to the Trematochampsidae, a poorly-known group of fossil crocodiles.

References

  1. Buffetaut, E., and P. Taquet (1979). "Un nouveau Crocodilien mésosuchien dans le Campanien de Madagascar, Trematochampsa oblita, n.sp.". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 2: 183–188. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Erin L. Rasmusson Simons and Gregory A. Buckley (2009). "New Material of "Trematochampsa" oblita (Crocodyliformes,Trematochampsidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 (2): 599–604. doi:10.1671/039.029.0224. 
  3. Buffetaut, E. (1974). "Trematochampsa taqueti, un Crocodilien nouveau du Sénonian inférieur du Niger". Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences (Paris) 279: 1749–1752. 
  • Carroll, RL. (1988). Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. W.H. Freeman and Company

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