Gobiosuchus

Gobiosuchus

Taxobox
name = "Gobiosuchus"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
infraclassis = Archosauromorpha
superordo = Crocodylomorpha
unranked_familia = Crocodyliformes
familia = Gobiosuchidae
genus = "Gobiosuchus"
binomial = "Gobiosuchus kielanae"
binomial_authority = Osmólska 1972

"Gobiosuchus" ("Gobi [desert] crocodile") was a gobiosuchid crocodyliform described in 1972 by Polish palaeontologist Halszka Osmólska. It hails from the Late Cretaceous (Early Campanian) of Bayn Dzak (Djadokhta Formation), in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.

Its type species is "G. kielanae".

Systematics

"Gobiosuchus kielanae", along with "Zaraasuchus shepardi", belongs to the family Gobiosuchidae.

References

* Pol, D. & Norell, M. A., (2004). A new gobiosuchid crocodyliform taxon from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. "American Museum Novitates" 3458: 1-31.

External links

* [http://diglib1.amnh.org/novitates/i0003-0082-458-01-0001.pdf Pol & Norell (2004)]


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