Peipehsuchus
| Peipehsuchus Temporal range: 183–176 Ma | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Infraclass: | Archosauromorpha |
| (unranked): | Mesoeucrocodylia |
| Suborder: | Thalattosuchia |
| Family: | Teleosauridae |
| Genus: | Peipehsuchus Young, 1948 |
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Peipehsuchus is an extinct genus of teleosaurid crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian). The type species, P. teleorhinus, is known from China and fragmentary remains were found in the Callovian of Kyrgyzstan.[1]
References
- ↑ Storrs, Glenn W. and Efimov, M. Mesozoic crocodyliforms of north-central Eurasia, Chapter 20 of The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Michael J. Benton,Mikhail A. Shishkin,David M. Unwin, Cambridge University Press, 2003, page 414.
Sources
- Buffeteaut, E., 1982 "Radiation évolutive, paléoécologie et biogéographie des crocodiliens mésosuchiens". Société Géologique de France, Mémoirs 142: 1-88.
- Li, J., 1993, "A new specimen of Peipehsuchus teleorhinus from Ziliujing formation of Daxian, Sichuan": Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 31, n. 2, p. 85-94.
- Steel, R., 1973, Crocodylia: Handbuch der Palaoherpetologie, part 16, 116pp
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