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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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