Hallopus
Extinct genus of reptiles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hallopus was a prehistoric reptile, named in 1877 as a species of Nanosaurus and classified as a genus by O. C. Marsh in 1881 from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation. Today though the animal is thought to be a pseudosuchian more closely related to crocodilians. It was redescribed as a sphenosuchian crocodylomorph in 1970, now thought to be a paraphyletic group. It was a quite small animal, reaching a length of 1 m (3.3 ft) with long and slender limbs. Macelognathus, a similarly slender-proportioned crocodylomorph to Hallopus, may be synonymous with it.
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Hallopus victor skeletal reconstruction | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Family: | †Hallopodidae |
Genus: | †Hallopus Marsh, 1881 |
Type species | |
†Nanosaurus victor | |
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