- Oxysdonsaurus
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Oxysdonsaurus
Temporal range: OligoceneScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Subclass: Diapsida Infraclass: Archosauromorpha (unranked): Crurotarsi Superorder: Crocodylomorpha Order: Crocodilia Family: Crocodylidae Genus: Oxysdonsaurus
Ambrosetti, 1890Species - O. striatus Ambrosetti, 1890 (type)
Oxysdonsaurus is an extinct genus of crocodylid crocodilian. Fossils have been found from the Paraná Basin in Argentina that date back to the Oligocene.[1][2] According to Edward Drinker Cope, the generic name is a misspelling of the intended name Oxyodontosaurus.[3] The genus is known only from a single tooth and is thus considered indeterminate.[4][5]
References
- ^ Ambrosetti, J. B. (1890). "Observaciones sobre los reptiles fosiles Oligocenos de los terrenos Terciarios antiquos del Parana". Academia Nacional de Ciencias of Cordova 10: 409–426.
- ^ Markwick, P. J. (1998). "Crocodilian diversity in space and time: the role of climate in paleoecology and its implication for understanding K/T extinctions". Paleobiology 24 (4): 470–497.
- ^ Cope, E. D. (1893). "Geology and Paleontology: Fossil Reptiles from the Parana". The American Naturalist 27 (316): 375–379. doi:10.1086/275717.
- ^ Rusconi, C. (1935). "Observaciones sobre los gaviales fosiles Argentinos". Annales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 119: 203–214.
- ^ Patterson, B. (1936). "Caiman latirostris from the Pleistocene of Argentina, and a summary of South American Cenozoic Crocodilia". Herpetologica 1 (2): 43–45+47–54.
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