Zulmasuchus
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| Zulmasuchus Temporal range: Early Paleocene, 65.5–61.7Ma | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Suborder: | †Notosuchia |
| Branch: | †Sebecosuchia |
| Clade: | †Sebecia |
| Family: | †Sebecidae |
| Genus: | †Zulmasuchus Paolillo & Linares, 2007 |
| Type species | |
| †Zulmasuchus querejazus (Buffetaut & Marshall, 1991) | |
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Zulmasuchus (meaning "Zulma Gasparini's crocodile") is an extinct genus of sebecid sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian. Its fossils have been found in Early Paleocene-age rocks (Danian stage) of the Santa Lucia Formation in Bolivia.[1] Zulmasuchus was named in 2007 by Alfredo Paolillo and Omar Linares for fossils originally described by Buffetaut and Marshall in 1991 as Sebecus querejazus. Thus, the type species is Z. querejazus.[2]
References
- ↑ Buffetaut, E.; and Marshall, L.G. (1991). "A new crocodilian, Sebecus querejazus, nov. sp. (Mesosuchia, Sebecidae) from the Santa Lucia Formation (Early Paleocene) at Vila Vila, Southern Bolivia". In Suarez-Soruco, R. (ed.). Fosiles y Facies de Bolivia - Vol I Vertebrados. Santa Cruz: Revista Técnica de YPFB. pp. 545–557.
- ↑ Paolillo, Alfredo; and Linares, Omar J. (2007). "Nuevos cocodrilos Sebecosuchia del Cenozoico Suramericano (Mesosuchia: Crocodylia)" (PDF). Paleobiologia Neotropical (in Spanish) 3: 1–25. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
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