Pepesuchus
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Pepesuchus is an extinct genus of carnivorous metasuchian from the Late Cretaceous period. It is a peirosaurid which lived during the Campanian and Maastrichtian stages of the Late Cretaceous in what is now state of São Paulo, Brazil.[1] It was a semiaquatic crocodylomorph.[2]
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Pepesuchus | |
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Left hemimandible of P. deisae, specimen MCT 1788-R | |
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: | †Peirosauridae |
Genus: | †Pepesuchus Campos et al., 2011 |
Species: | †P. deiseae |
Binomial name | |
†Pepesuchus deiseae Campos et al., 2011 | |
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