Caririsuchus Temporal range:
Albian
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Clade: | † Notosuchia |
Clade: | † Sebecosuchia |
Clade: | † Sebecia |
Family: | † Peirosauridae |
Genus: | †
Caririsuchus Kellner 1987 |
Species | |
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Caririsuchus is an extinct genus of peirosaurid [1] crocodylomorph. Fossils have been found from the Romualdo Formation of the Santana Group in the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil, dating back to the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous. [2] It was about 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in length.
Caririsuchus Temporal range:
Albian
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---|---|
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Clade: | † Notosuchia |
Clade: | † Sebecosuchia |
Clade: | † Sebecia |
Family: | † Peirosauridae |
Genus: | †
Caririsuchus Kellner 1987 |
Species | |
|
Caririsuchus is an extinct genus of peirosaurid [1] crocodylomorph. Fossils have been found from the Romualdo Formation of the Santana Group in the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil, dating back to the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous. [2] It was about 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in length.