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Coelosuchus
Temporal range: Late CretaceousScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Superorder: Crocodylomorpha Family: †Goniopholididae Genus: †Coelosuchus
Williston, 1906Species - †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
- ^ Carroll, R.L. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. WH Freeman and Company, New York ISBN 0-7167-1822-7
- ^ Williston, S. W. (1906). American Amphicoelian Crocodiles. Journal of Geology 14:1-17.
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