Also known as Carnufex carolinensis type
Where: Chatham County, North Carolina (35.6° N, 79.0° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° N, 17.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pekin Formation (Chatham Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)
• Pekin Formation, Chatham Group, Newark Supergroup, ,231 Ma
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; intraclastic, red conglomerate and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: NCSM: North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh
Primary reference: L. E. Zanno, S. Drymala, S. J. Nesbitt and V. P. Schneider. 2015. Early crocodylomorph increases top tier predator diversity during rise of dinosaurs. Scientific Reports 5(9276):1-6 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 169982: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 09.06.2015, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Carnufex carolinensis n. gen. n. sp.
Carnufex carolinensis n. gen. n. sp. Zanno et al. 2015 crocodilian NCSM 21558 - holotype (partial skull and postcranial skeleton including: right dentigerous premaxilla, left maxilla, left lacrimal, left jugal, left articular, right angular, isolated maxillary tooth, cervical neural arch, dorsal neural arch, cervical rib, dorsal ribs, and left humerus); referred materials: NCSM 21623 (partial right humerus)
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Desmatosuchinae indet.2, ? Desmatosuchinae indet.2, cf. Lucasuchus sp.2, Gorgetosuchus pekinensis n. gen. n. sp.2, Coahomasuchus chathamensis n. sp.1
Coahomasuchus chathamensis n. sp.1 Heckert et al. 2017 aetosaur Coahomasuchus sp. of Heckert et al. (2015). NCSM 23618 (Holotype: an incomplete, articulated skeleton)
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