Hamadasuchus
| Hamadasuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Family: | †Peirosauridae |
| Genus: | †Hamadasuchus Buffetaut, 1994 |
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Hamadasuchus is an extinct genus of sebecian crocodylomorph. Fossils have been found from the Kem Kem Formation outcropping in southeastern Morocco.[1] These beds date back to the Albian and Cenomanian stages of the Late Cretaceous. It was first assigned to the family Trematochampsidae.[2] Diagnostic features of the genus include its lateromedially compressed and serrated teeth. It was deep-snouted and had a slightly heterodont dentition with three distinct tooth morphologies present from sections of the lower jaw.[3]
References
- ↑ Larsson, H. C. E. and Sues, H.-D. (2007). Cranial osteology and phylogenetic relationships of Hamadasuchus rebouli (Crocodyliformes: Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Cretaceous of Morocco. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 149(4):533-567.
- ↑ Buffetaut, E. (1994). A new crocodilian from the Cretaceous of southern Morocco. Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences. Série 2. Sciences de la terre et des planètes 319(2):1563–1568.
- ↑ Larsson, H. C. E. and Sidor, C. A. (1999). Unusual crocodyliform teeth from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of southeastern Morocco. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(2):398-401. JSTOR 4524001
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