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Coelosuchus
Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification

Class:

Sauropsida

Superorder:

Crocodylomorpha

(Unranked) :

Mesoeucrocodylia

Family:

Goniopholididae

Genus:

Coelosuchus Williston, 1906

Species:

  • C. reedii Williston, 1906 (type)

Coelosuchus is an extinct genus of goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian[1]. Fossils have been found from the Graneros Shale of the Benton Group in Wyoming, and are of Cenomanian age[2]. It was slightly over 1 meter in length.

References[]

  1. ^ Carroll, R.L. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. WH Freeman and Company, New York ISBN 0-7167-1822-7
  2. ^ Williston, S. W. (1906). American Amphicoelian Crocodiles. Journal of Geology 14:1-17.


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