Dollosuchoides

Dollosuchoides
Dollosuchoides
Temporal range: Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Crocodilia
Subfamily: Tomistominae
Genus: Dollosuchoides
Brochu, 2007
Species
  • D. densmorei Brochu, 2007 (type)

Dollosuchoides is an extinct genus of crocodilian. It is a basal tomistomine closely related to the genus Tomistoma, of which the only extant species of tomistomine, the False gharial, is a member of.[1] Fossils have been found from Belgium and date back to the middle Eocene.

References

  1. ^ Brochu, C.A. (2007). "Systematics and taxonomy of Eocene tomistomine crocodylians from Britain and Northern Europe". Palaeontology 50 (4): 917–928. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00679.x. 
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