| Dolichochampsa Fossil range: Late Cretaceous | |
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| Scientific classification
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Dolichochampsidae | |
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Dolichochampsa Gasparini and Buffetaut, 1980 | |
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Dolichochampsa is an extinct genus of eusuchian crocodylomorph. It is the type genus and only member of the family Dolichochampsidae[1]. Fossils have been found from Argentina and Bolivia of Maastrichtian age[2]. It had a distinctive slender snout[3]. Because the material associated with the specimens is so fragmentary, its relationships with other eusuchians remains unknown[4].
References[]
- ^ Gasparini, Z and Buffetaut, E. (1980). Dolichochampsa minima, n.g.n.sp., a representative of a new family of eusuchian crocodiles from the Late Cretaceous of northern Argentina. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1980:257–271.
- ^ Buffetaut, E. (1987). Occurence of the crocodilian Dolichochampsa minima (Eusuchia, Dolichochampsidae) in the El Molino formation of Bolivia. Bulletin de la Société belge de géologie 96(2):195-199
- ^ Brochu, C. A. (2001). Crocodylian snouts in space and time: phylogenetic approaches toward adaptive radiation. American Zoologist 41:564-585
- ^ Salisbury, S. W., Molnar, R. E., Frey, E., and Willis, P. M. A. (2006). The origin of modern crocodyliforms: new evidence from the Cretaceous of Australia. Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 273(1600): 2439–2448.
