Baurusuchus
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Baurusuchus is an extinct genus of baurusuchid mesoeucrocodylian, which lived in Brazil from 90 to 83.5 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous period. It was a terrestrial predator and scavenger, estimated to reach up to 113.4 kilograms (250 lb) in weight.[1] Baurusuchus lived during the Turonian to Santonian stages of the Late Cretaceous Period, in Adamantina Formation, Brazil.[2] It gets its name from the Brazilian Bauru Group ("Bauru crocodile"). It was related to the earlier-named Cynodontosuchus rothi, which was smaller, with weaker dentition.[3] The three species are B. pachechoi, named after Eng Joviano Pacheco, its discoverer,[4] B. salgadoensis (named after General Salgado County in São Paulo, Brazil)[5] and B. albertoi (named after Alberto Barbosa de Carvalho, Brazilian paleontologist).[2] The latter species is disputed (see phylogeny section). Its relatives include the similarly sized Stratiotosuchus from the Adamantina Formation, and Pabweshi, from the Pakistani Pab Formation.
Baurusuchus | |
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Skull of Baurusuchus salgadoensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Clade: | †Notosuchia |
Clade: | †Sebecosuchia |
Family: | †Baurusuchidae |
Subfamily: | †Baurusuchinae |
Genus: | †Baurusuchus Price, 1945 |
Type species | |
†Baurusuchus pachechoi Price, 1945 | |
Other species | |