Ischyrochampsa
| Ischyrochampsa Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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| Teeth of Ischyrochampsa meridionalis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Subclass: | Diapsida |
| Infraclass: | Archosauromorpha |
| (unranked): | Mesoeucrocodylia |
| Genus: | Ischyrochampsa Vasse, 1995 |
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Ischyrochampsa is an extinct genus of Late Cretaceous mesoeucrocodylian. Fossils of the type species I. meridionalis are late Campanian in age and were found in the commune of Saint-Estève-Janson in Bouches-du-Rhône, France. Material is also known from Spain.[1] At an estimated length of over 4 metres (13 ft), Ischyrochampsa was a large mesoeucrocodylian.[2] It was named and described in 1995.[3]
Ischyrochampsa was first classified as a trematochampsid, but is now thought to be a more basal mesoeucrocodylian.[4][5] It is one of only a few non-eusuchian mesoeucrocodylians found in Europe during the Late Cretaceous, the others being Doratodon and Theriosuchus.[1][5]
References
- 1 2 Company, J.; Suberbiola, X.A.; Ruiz-Omeñaca, J.I.; Buscalioni, A.D. (2005). "A new species of Doratodon (Crocodyliformes: Ziphosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Spain" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 (2): 343–353. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0343:ANSODC]2.0.CO;2.
- ↑ Martin, J.E.; Buffetaut, E. (2005). "An overview of the Late Cretaceous crocodilian assemblage from Cruzy, southern France". Kaupia 14: 33–40.
- ↑ Vasse, D. (1995). "Ischyrochampsa meridionalis n. g. n. sp., un crocodilien d'affinité gondwanienne dans le Crétacé supérieur du Sud de la France". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 8: 501–512.
- ↑ Buffetaut, E. (2005). "Late Cretaceous vertebrates from the Saint-Chinian area (southern France): a review of previous research and an update on recent finds". Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 5: 39–48.
- 1 2 Martin, J.E.; Rabi, R.; Csiki, Z. (2010). "Survival of Theriosuchus (Mesoeucrocodylia: Atoposauridae) in a Late Cretaceous archipelago: a new species from the Maastrichtian of Romania". Naturwissenschaften 97 (9): 845–54. doi:10.1007/s00114-010-0702-y. PMID 20711558.
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