Confractosuchus
Extinct genus of eusuchian / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Confractosuchus is a genus of extinct eusuchian crocodyliform from the Cretaceous Winton Formation of Australia.[1] Described as a macro-generalist, Confractosuchus was found with the bones of a juvenile ornithopod dinosaur in its abdomen.[2] It currently contains a single species, Confractosuchus sauroktonos, which literally means "broken dinosaur killer."[3]
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Confractosuchus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Clade: | Eusuchia |
Genus: | †Confractosuchus White et al., 2022 |
Species: | †C. sauroktonos |
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†Confractosuchus sauroktonos White et al., 2022 (type) | |
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The discovery of Confractosuchus was announced by the Australian Age of Dinosaurs museum on 11 February 2022, and was published in the journal Gondwana Research.[4] It is the second extinct eusuchian crocodyliform genus discovered from the Winton Formation, after Isisfordia that was discovered during the mid-1990s and named in 2006.[5][6]