Geosaurus lapparenti Debelmas and Strannoloubsky 1957 (marine crocodile)

Reptilia - Loricata - Metriorhynchidae

Alternative combination: Dacosaurus lapparenti

Full reference: J. Debelmas and A. Strannoloubsky. 1957. Découverte d’un crocodilien dans le Néocomien de La Martre (Var) Dacosaurus lapparenti n. sp. Travaux du Laboratoire de la Faculté des Sciences de l'Université de Grenoble 33:89-99

Belongs to Geosaurus according to J. Parrilla-Bel and J. I. Canudo 2015

See also Bronzati et al. 2012, Debelmas and Strannoloubsky 1957, Young and Andrade 2009 and Young et al. 2013

Sister taxa: Geosaurus giganteus, Geosaurus grandis, Geosaurus medius

Type specimen: UJF-ID.11847, a partial skeleton (isolated cranial remains, cervical and caudal vertebrae, and pectoral girdle elements). Its type locality is La Martre (Var), which is in a Valanginian marine horizon in France.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.