Reptilia - Crocodylia - Alligatoridae

Full reference: T. E. Williamson. 1996. ?Brachychampsa sealeyi, sp. nov., (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea) from the Upper Cretaceous (lower Campanian) Menefee Formation, northwestern New Mexico . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(3):421-431

Belongs to Brachychampsa according to C. A. Brochu 2004

See also Sullivan and Lucas 2003 and Williamson 1996

Sister taxon: Brachychampsa montana

Type specimen: NMMNH P-25050, a partial skull (partial skull and associated partial right mandible, partial ramus of the left mandible, and a nearly complete osteoderm). Its type locality is NMMNH locality L-3034, which is in a Campanian/Campanian terrestrial mudstone in the Menefee Formation of New Mexico.

Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution: found only at NMMNH locality L-3034

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