Pissarrachampsa
Extinct genus of reptiles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pissarrachampsa (meaning "piçarra [the local name for the sandstones it was recovered from] crocodile") is an extinct genus of baurusuchid mesoeucrocodylian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. It is based on a nearly complete skull and a referred partial skull and lower jaw from the ?Campanian - ?Maastrichtian-age Vale do Rio do Peixe Formation of the Bauru Group, found in the vicinity of Gurinhatã, Brazil.[1]
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Holotype skull | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Clade: | †Notosuchia |
Clade: | †Sebecosuchia |
Family: | †Baurusuchidae |
Subfamily: | †Pissarrachampsinae |
Genus: | †Pissarrachampsa Montefeltro, Larsson, & Langer, 2011 |
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