Baurusuchus pachecoi Price 1945 (crocodilian)

Reptilia - Loricata - Baurusuchidae

Full reference: L. I. Price. 1945. A new reptile from the Cretaceous of Brazil. Ministério da Agricultura, Departamento Nacional da Produção Mineral, Divisão de Geologia e Mineralogie, Notas Preliminares e Estudos 25:1-9

Belongs to Baurusuchus according to P. L. Godoy et al. 2014

See also Bronzati et al. 2012, Carvalho et al. 2005, Carvalho et al. 2011, Charig 1967, Colbert 1946, Martinelli and Pais 2008, Montefeltro et al. 2011, Nascimento and Zaher 2010, Nascimento and Zaher 2011, Nobre and Carvalho 2006, Pol et al. 2014, Price 1945, Sertich and O'Connor 2014 and Turner and Sertich 2010

Sister taxa: Baurusuchus albertoi, Baurusuchus salgadoensis

Type specimen: DGM 299R, a skull. Its type locality is 72 km southwest of Vila do Veadinho, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian terrestrial horizon in the Adamantina Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Brazil (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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