Coelosuchus
Extinct genus of reptiles
Coelosuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Family: | †Goniopholididae |
Genus: | †Coelosuchus Williston, 1906 |
Type species | |
†Coelosuchus reedii Williston, 1906 |
Coelosuchus is an extinct genus of goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian.[1] Fossils have been found from the Graneros Shale of the Benton Group in Wyoming, and are of Cenomanian age.[2] It was slightly over 1 meter in length.
References
- ^ Carroll, R.L. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. WH Freeman and Company, New York ISBN 0-7167-1822-7
- ^ Williston, S. W. (1906). American Amphicoelian Crocodiles. Journal of Geology 14:1-17.
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- See also: Coelognathosuchia
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