Miadanasuchus
| Miadanasuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Subclass: | Diapsida |
| Infraclass: | Archosauromorpha |
| (unranked): | Crurotarsi |
| Superorder: | Crocodylomorpha |
| (unranked): | Mesoeucrocodylia |
| Family: | Trematochampsidae |
| Genus: | Miadanasuchus Simons & Buckley, 2009 |
| Species | |
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M. oblita Buffetaut & Taquet, 1979(originally Trematochampsa oblita) (type) | |
Miadanasuchus is an extinct genus of trematochampsid which existed in the Maevarano Formation of Madagascar during the late Cretaceous period (Campanian age).[1] It was first named by Erin L. Rasmusson Simons and Gregory A. Buckley in 2009 and the type species is Miadanasuchus oblita.[1]
References
- 1 2 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.
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