Terminonaris
| Terminonaris Temporal range: 100–90 Ma | |
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| Teleorhinus robustus skull (AMNH 5850) in the American Museum of Natural History | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Family: | †Pholidosauridae |
| Genus: | †Terminonaris Osborn, 1904 |
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Front view of a Teleorhinus robustus skull (AMNH 5850)
Terminonaris is a genus of extinct pholidosaurid crocodyliforms that lived in the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian and Turonian[1][2]). Its remains are known from North America. Originally known under the generic name Teleorhinus, it was once believed to be a teleosaurid (a family of marine gavial-like thalattosuchians).
Terminonaris was an enormous predator, reaching a length of 6 m (20 ft).[1]
Sources
- 1 2 Wu X-C, Russell AP, & Cumbaa SL. 2001. Terminonaris (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes): new material from Saskatchewan, Canada, and comments on its phylogenetic relationships. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):492-514.
- ↑ Shimada, K., and Parris, D.C., 2007. A long-snouted Late Cretaceous crocodyliform, Terminonaris cf. T. browni, from the Carlile Shale (Turonian) of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 110(1):107-115.
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