Biology:Zulmasuchus

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Short description: Extinct genus of reptiles


Zulmasuchus
Temporal range: Early Paleocene (Tiupampan-Peligran)
~65.5–61.7 Ma
Scientific classification e
Missing taxonomy template (fix): Archosauria/Reptilia
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Crocodyliformes
Suborder: Notosuchia
Clade: Sebecosuchia
Clade: Sebecia
Family: Sebecidae
Genus: Zulmasuchus
Paolillo & Linares 2007
Type species
Sebecus querejazus
Buffetaut & Marshall 1991
Synonyms
  • Sebecus querejazus Buffetaut & Marshall 1991

Zulmasuchus (meaning "Zulma Gasparini's crocodile") is an extinct genus of sebecid sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian. Its fossils have been found in Early Paleocene-age rocks (Danian stage) of the Santa Lucía Formation in Bolivia.[1] Zulmasuchus was named in 2007 by Alfredo Paolillo and Omar Linares for fossils originally described by Buffetaut and Marshall in 1991 as Sebecus querejazus. Thus, the type species is Sebecus querezajus and the combinatio nova is Zulmasuchus querejazus.[2]

References

  1. Buffetaut, E.; Marshall, L.G. (1991). "A new crocodilian, Sebecus querejazus, nov. sp. (Mesosuchia, Sebecidae) from the Santa Lucía Formation (Early Paleocene) at Vila Vila, Southern Bolivia". in Suarez-Soruco, R.. Fosiles y Facies de Bolivia - Vol I Vertebrados. Santa Cruz: Revista Técnica de YPFB. pp. 545–557. 
  2. Paolillo, Alfredo; Linares, Omar J. (2007). "Nuevos cocodrilos Sebecosuchia del Cenozoico Suramericano (Mesosuchia: Crocodylia)" (in es) (PDF). Paleobiologia Neotropical 3: 1–25. http://www.paleobio.labb.usb.ve/Paleobio03.pdf. Retrieved 2009-02-15. 

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