Hassiacosuchus

Taxobox
name = "Hassiacosuchus"


image_caption =
fossil_range = Eocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Crocodilia
familia = Alligatoridae
subfamilia = Alligatorinae
genus = "Hassiacosuchus"
genus_authority=Weitzel, 1935
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*"H. haupti" Weitzel, 1935 (type)

"Hassiacosuchus" is an extinct genus of small alligatorid from the early Eocene of Germany, found at the Messel pit. It was named in 1935 by K. Weitzel, and the type species is "H. haupti".cite journal |last=Weitzel |first=K. |year=1935 |title="Hassiacosuchus haupti" n. g. n. sp., ein durophages Krokodil aus dem Mitteleozän von Messel |journal=Notizblatt des Vereins für Erdkunde und der Hessischen Geologischen Landesanstalt Darmstadt |volume=16 |pages=40–49 |language=German] A second species, "H. kayi", was named in 1941 by C.C. Mook for material from the Bridgerian (early Eocene) of Wyoming,cite journal |last=Mook |first=C.C. |year=1941 |title=A new crocodilian, "Hassiacosuchus kayi", from the Bridger Eocene beds of Wyoming |journal=Annals of the Carnegie Museum |volume=28 |pages=207–220] but was reassigned to "Procaimanoidea" in 1967 by Wassersug and Hecht.cite journal |last=Wassersug |first=R.J. |coauthors=and Hecht, M.K. |year=1967 |title=The status of the crocodylid genera "Procaimanoidea" and "Hassiacosuchus" in the New World |journal=Herpetologica |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=30–34]

References

External links

* [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=58004 "Hassiacosuchus"] in the Paleobiology Database