Sphagesauridae Temporal range: Turonian –
Maastrichtian
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Life restoration of Armadillosuchus arrudai | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Clade: | † Notosuchia |
Clade: | † Sphagesauria |
Family: | †
Sphagesauridae Kuhn, 1968 |
Genera | |
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Sphagesauridae is a Gondwanan family of mesoeucrocodylians that lived during the Late Cretaceous. It was a clade of terrestrial crocodilians that evolved very mammal-like teeth and jaws. [1] [2] Both Sphagesaurus and Adamantinasuchus are known from the Turonian to Santonian of Brazil. [3] [4]
Sphagesauridae Temporal range: Turonian –
Maastrichtian
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Life restoration of Armadillosuchus arrudai | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Clade: | † Notosuchia |
Clade: | † Sphagesauria |
Family: | †
Sphagesauridae Kuhn, 1968 |
Genera | |
|
Sphagesauridae is a Gondwanan family of mesoeucrocodylians that lived during the Late Cretaceous. It was a clade of terrestrial crocodilians that evolved very mammal-like teeth and jaws. [1] [2] Both Sphagesaurus and Adamantinasuchus are known from the Turonian to Santonian of Brazil. [3] [4]