Gobiosuchus

Gobiosuchus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Specimen encased in armour
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Crocodylomorpha
Family: Gobiosuchidae
Genus: Gobiosuchus
Osmólska, 1972
Species
  • G. kielanae Osmólska, 1972 (type)

Gobiosuchus ("Gobi [desert] crocodile") was a gobiosuchid crocodyliform described in 1972 by Polish palaeontologist Halszka Osmólska. It hails from the Late Cretaceous (Early Campanian) of Bayn Dzak (Djadokhta Formation), in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.

Skull in multiple views

Its type species is G. kielanae.

Systematics

Gobiosuchus kielanae, along with Zaraasuchus shepardi, belongs to the family Gobiosuchidae.

References

Cretaceous Period
Lower/Early Cretaceous Upper/Late Cretaceous
Berriasian | Valanginian | Hauterivian
Barremian| Aptian | Albian
Cenomanian | Turonian | Coniacian
Santonian |Campanian | Maastrichtian


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