Terminonaris

Taxobox
name = "Terminonaris"
fossil_range = Fossil range|100|90 Cenomanian - Turonian


image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
infraclassis = Archosauromorpha
unranked_ordo = Mesoeucrocodylia
familia = Pholidosauridae
genus = "Terminonaris"
genus_authority=Osborn, 1904
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
subdivision = "T. robusta" (type species) "T. browni"

"Terminonaris" is a genus of pholidosaurid mesoeucrocodylian that lived in the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian and TuronianWu X-C, Russell AP, & Cumbaa SL. 2001. "Terminonaris" (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes): new material from Saskatchewan, Canada, and comments on its phylogenetic relationships. "Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology" 21(3):492-514.] Shimada, K., and Parris, D.C., 2007. A long-snouted Late Cretaceous crocodyliform, "Terminonaris" cf. "T. browni", from the Carlile Shale (Turonian) of Kansas. "Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science" 110(1):107-115.] ). Its remains are known from North America. Originally known under the generic name "Teleorhinus", it was once believed to be a teleosaurid (a family of marine gavial-like thalattosuchians).

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* [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=93884 "Terminonaris"] in the Paleobiology Database