Trematochampsa
| Trematochampsa Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Subclass: | Diapsida |
| Infraclass: | Archosauromorpha |
| (unranked): | Crurotarsi |
| Superorder: | Crocodylomorpha |
| (unranked): | Mesoeucrocodylia |
| Family: | Trematochampsidae |
| Genus: | Trematochampsa Buffetaut, 1974 |
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Trematochampsa is an extinct genus of crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian age) In Beceten Formation of Niger. The type species, T. taqueti, was described by Eric Buffetaut in 1974.[3] A second species, T. oblita, was named from Madagascar in 1979. It became the type species of Miadanasuchus in 2009.[2]
Trematochampsa gives its name to the Trematochampsidae, a poorly known group of fossil crocodiles.
References
- ↑ Buffetaut, E., and P. Taquet (1979). "Un nouveau Crocodilien mésosuchien dans le Campanien de Madagascar, Trematochampsa oblita, n.sp.". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 2: 183–188.
- 1 2 Erin L. Rasmusson Simons and Gregory A. Buckley (2009). "New Material of "Trematochampsa" oblita (Crocodyliformes,Trematochampsidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 (2): 599–604. doi:10.1671/039.029.0224.
- ↑ Buffetaut, E. (1974). "Trematochampsa taqueti, un Crocodilien nouveau du Sénonian inférieur du Niger". Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences (Paris) 279: 1749–1752.
- Carroll, RL. (1988). Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. W.H. Freeman and Company
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