Brasileosaurus
Extinct genus of reptiles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Basilosaurus.
Brasileosaurus (meaning "Brazil lizard") is a genus of notosuchid notosuchian from the Late Cretaceous Adamantina Formation of Brazil. The type species is B. pachecoi, discovered by the Brazilian Eng. Joviano Pacheco and described by the prolific German paleontologist Friedrich von Huene in 1931.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Clade: | †Notosuchia |
Family: | †Notosuchidae |
Genus: | †Brasileosaurus Huene, 1931 |
Species: | †B. pachecoi |
Binomial name | |
†Brasileosaurus pachecoi Huene, 1931 | |
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Brasileosaurus is not to be confused with the mesosaur Brazilosaurus.