Biology:Guarinisuchus
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Short description: Extinct genus of reptiles
| Guarinisuchus | |
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| Life restoration of Guarinisuchus munizi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Missing taxonomy template (fix): | Archosauria/Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Family: | †Dyrosauridae |
| Genus: | †Guarinisuchus Barbosa et al., 2008 |
| Type species | |
| †G. munizi Barbosa et al., 2008
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Guarinisuchus is an extinct genus of marine crocodyliform from the Early Paleocene 62 million years ago of the Maria Farinha Formation, Brazil .[1] The type species is G. munizi. It was a dominant predator in its environment,[citation needed] and probably reached a length of 3 metres (9.8 ft). Guarinisuchus appears to be closely related to marine crocodylomorphs found in Africa, which supports the hypothesis that the group originated in Africa and migrated to South America before spreading into the waters off the North American coast.[2]
References
Further reading
- Barbosa, José Antonio; Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner; Maria Somália Sales Viana (March 2008). "New dyrosaurid crocodylomorph and evidences for faunal turnover at the K–P transition in Brazil". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275 (1641): 1385–91. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.0110. PMID 18364311.
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Wikidata ☰ Q141343 entry
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