Biology:Symptosuchus

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Short description: Extinct genus of reptiles

Symptosuchus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification e
Missing taxonomy template (fix): Archosauria/Reptilia
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Crocodyliformes
Family: Goniopholididae
Genus: Symptosuchus
Ameghino, 1899
Type species
Symptosuchus contortidens
Ameghino, 1899

Symptosuchus is an extinct genus of goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian. It is known from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina .[1] Argentine paleontologist Florentino Ameghino named the genus in 1899, along with the type species S. contortidens.[2] It was formally described by Carlos Rusconi in 1934.[3][4]

References

  1. "Répartition géographique des fossiles de "Crocodiles"". Paleopedia. http://paleopedia.free.fr/crocodile_fossile_repartition_geographique.html. Retrieved 18 July 2010. 
  2. Ameghino, F. (1899). Sinopsis geologico-paleontologica de la Argentina: Suplemento. La Plata: Adiciones y correcciones. pp. 13. 
  3. Rusconi, C. (1934). "Posicion estratigrafica y relaciones zoologicas de los cocodrilianos Argentinos extinguidos". Bol. Pal. Buenos Aires 4: 7–12. 
  4. Camp, C.I (1942). Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates 1934-1938. Geological Society of America Special Papers. 42. pp. 668. 

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