Ogresuchus
Fossil sebecid species / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ogresuchus is an extinct sebecid known from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian stage) Tremp Formation in Spain. It is the oldest known member of the Sebecidae and it is also the only known Mesozoic sebecid. The type species, O. furatus, was named in 2020. It was a small crocodilian, measuring 1.09 m (3.6 ft) long and weighing about 9 kg (20 lb).[1]
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Ogresuchus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Clade: | †Notosuchia |
Clade: | †Sebecosuchia |
Clade: | †Sebecia |
Family: | †Sebecidae |
Genus: | †Ogresuchus Sellés et al., 2020 |
Species: | †O. furatus |
Binomial name | |
†Ogresuchus furatus Sellés et al., 2020 | |
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