Uruguaysuchus

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Uruguaysuchus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Crocodylomorpha
Suborder: Notosuchia
Family: Uruguaysuchidae
Genus: Uruguaysuchus
Rusconi, 1933
Type species
Uruguaysuchus aznarezi
Rusconi, 1933

Uruguaysuchus is an extinct genus of crocodylomorph from the Late Cretaceous of Uruguay. It was related to Simosuchus and Malawisuchus.[1] It was of small to moderate size reaching a length of 120 cm.[2]

Sources

  1. Turner, Alan H. (2004). "Crocodyliform biogeography during the Cretaceous: evidence of Gondwanan vicariance from biogeographical analysis". Proceedings of the Royal Society B 271 (1552): 2003–2009. doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.2840. PMC 1691824. PMID 15451689. 
  2. Li, Jinling(1985), A revision of Edentosuchus tienshanensis young from the Tugulu Group of Xinjiang Autonomous Region.
  • A Pictorial Guide to Fossils by Gerard Ramon Case
  • The Osteology of the Reptiles by Alfred Sherwood Romer
  • Dinosaur Eggs and Babies by Kenneth Carpenter, Karl F. Hirsch, and John R. Horner


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