Thoracosaurus borissiaki Efimov 1988 (crocodilian)

Reptilia - Crocodylia - Gavialidae

Belongs to Thoracosaurus according to G. W. Storrs and M. B. Efimov 2000

See also Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Thoracosaurus brevispinus, Thoracosaurus isorhynchus, Thoracosaurus macrorhynchus, Thoracosaurus neocesariensis, Holops cordatus, Holops glyptodon, Holops pneumaticus

Type specimen: TsNIGRI 3373/709, a partial skull (Well preserved partial skull). Its type locality is Inkerman, Crimea, which is in a Maastrichtian marine horizon in Ukraine.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: found only at Inkerman, Crimea

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