Zulmasuchus

Zulmasuchus
Temporal range: Early Paleocene (Tiupampan-Peligran)
~65.5–61.7 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Branch: †Sebecosuchia
Clade: †Sebecia
Family: †Sebecidae
Genus: †Zulmasuchus
Paolillo & Linares, 2007
Type species
†Zulmasuchus querejazus
Buffetaut & Marshall, 1991
Synonyms
  • Sebecus querejazus Buffetaut & Marshall, 1991

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 Lucía 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

  1. ↑ Buffetaut, E.; Marshall, L.G. (1991). "A new crocodilian, Sebecus querejazus, nov. sp. (Mesosuchia, Sebecidae) from the Santa Lucía 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.
  2. ↑ Paolillo, Alfredo; 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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