Globidentosuchus
Globidentosuchus is an extinct genus of basal caimanine crocodylian known from the late Middle to Late Miocene of the Middle and the Upper Members of the Urumaco Formation at Urumaco, Venezuela.[2] It contains a single species, Globidentosuchus brachyrostris.[3]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Family: | Alligatoridae |
| Subfamily: | Caimaninae |
| Genus: | †Globidentosuchus Scheyer et al., 2013 |
| Type species | |
| †Globidentosuchus brachyrostris Scheyer et al., 2013 | |
References
- Rio, Jonathan P.; Mannion, Philip D. (6 September 2021). "Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem". PeerJ. 9: e12094. doi:10.7717/peerj.12094. PMC 8428266. PMID 34567843.
- Globidentosuchus at Fossilworks.org
- Scheyer, T. M.; Aguilera, O. A.; Delfino, M.; Fortier, D. C.; Carlini, A. A.; Sánchez, R.; Carrillo-Briceño, J. D.; Quiroz, L.; Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. (2013). "Crocodylian diversity peak and extinction in the late Cenozoic of the northern Neotropics" (PDF). Nature Communications. 4: 1907. Bibcode:2013NatCo...4.1907S. doi:10.1038/ncomms2940. PMID 23695701.
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