Itasuchus Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification
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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: | †
Itasuchus Price, 1955 |
Type species | |
†Itasuchus jesuinoi Price, 1955
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Itasuchus is an extinct genus of crocodyliforms from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. [1] Fossils of the type species I. jesuinoi, first described in 1955 by Llewellyn Ivor Price, have been found from the Serra da Galga Formation ( Maastrichtian age) in Uberaba, Brazil. [1]
It is known from a 370 mm skull, suggesting a total length of about 3 m (10 ft). [2]
Itasuchus Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification
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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: | †
Itasuchus Price, 1955 |
Type species | |
†Itasuchus jesuinoi Price, 1955
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Itasuchus is an extinct genus of crocodyliforms from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. [1] Fossils of the type species I. jesuinoi, first described in 1955 by Llewellyn Ivor Price, have been found from the Serra da Galga Formation ( Maastrichtian age) in Uberaba, Brazil. [1]
It is known from a 370 mm skull, suggesting a total length of about 3 m (10 ft). [2]