Balanerodus
| Balanerodus Temporal range: Middle Miocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Order: | Crocodylia |
| Family: | Alligatoridae |
| Genus: | Balanerodus Langston, 1965 |
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Balanerodus is an extinct genus of alligatorid crocodylian.[1] Fossils have been found from the Fitzcarrald Arch in the Peruvian Amazon and date back to the Laventan regional South American age of the middle Miocene (13.8-12 mya).[2]
References
- ↑ Carroll, R.L. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. WH Freeman and Company, New York ISBN 0-7167-1822-7
- ↑ Salas-Gismondi, R.; et al. (2007), "Middle Miocene Crocodiles From the Fitzcarrald Arch, Amazonian Peru" (PDF), in Díaz-Martínez, E.; Rábano, I., 4th European Meeting on the Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of Latin America, Madrid: Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, pp. 355–360, ISBN 978-84-7840-707-1 External link in
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External links
- Balanerodus in the Paleobiology Database
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