Goniopholis
Extinct genus of reptiles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Goniopholis (meaning "angled scale") is an extinct genus of goniopholidid crocodyliform that lived in Europe and North America during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous.[1][2] Like other goniopholidids, it resembled living crocodilians, and probably had a similar ecology as semi-aquatic ambush predators.
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Goniopholis | |
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Holotype skull of the "Swanage Crocodile", G. kiplingi on display at the Dorset Museum. Berriasian age (earliest Cretaceous). | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Family: | †Goniopholididae |
Genus: | †Goniopholis Owen, 1841 |
Type species | |
†Goniopholis crassidens Owen, 1841 | |
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