Araripesuchus patagonicus Ortega et al. 2000 (crocodilian)

Reptilia - Loricata

Full reference: F. Ortega, Z. Gasparini, A. D. Buscaloni and J. O. Calvo. 2000. A new species of Araripesuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(1):57-76

Belongs to Araripesuchus according to J. J. W. Sertich and P. M. O'Connor 2014

See also Bronzati et al. 2012, Nascimento and Zaher 2010, Nascimento and Zaher 2011, Ortega et al. 2000, Pol et al. 2014, Sereno and Larsson 2009, Turner 2006 and Turner and Sertich 2010

Sister taxa: Araripesuchus buitreraensis, Araripesuchus gomesii, Araripesuchus rattoides, Araripesuchus tsangatsangana, Araripesuchus wegeneri

Type specimen: MUCPV 269, a partial skeleton (Anterior half of an articulated individual with skull and mandibles lacking the most anterior portion of the rostrum. The specimen exposes the precaudal dorsal ). Its type locality is Villa El Chocón, 5 km southwest, which is in a Cenomanian floodplain sandstone in the Candeleros Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: found only at Villa El Chocón, 5 km southwest

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