Araripesuchus Price 1959 (crocodilian)

Reptilia - Loricata

Full reference: L. I. Price. 1959. Sobre um crocodilideo notossuquio do Cretacico Brasileiro. Boletim Divisao de Geolgia e Mineralogia Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 188:1-55

Parent taxon: Notosuchia according to J. J. W. Sertich and P. M. O'Connor 2014

See also Bronzati et al. 2012, Buffetaut 1981, Calvo 1999, Carroll 1988, Carvalho et al. 2004, Fiorelli and Calvo 2008, Gauthier et al. 1989, Iori and Carvalho 2011, Kuhn 1966, Larsson and Sues 2007, Martinelli 2003, Nascimento and Zaher 2011, Ortega et al. 2000, Pol and ApesteguĂ­a 2005, Pol et al. 2012, Pol et al. 2014, Pol and Norell 2004, Price 1959, Sereno et al. 2001, Sereno and Larsson 2009, Sereno et al. 2003, Soto et al. 2011, Turner 2006, Turner and Sertich 2010 and Zaher et al. 2006

Sister taxa: Comahuesuchidae, Coringasuchus, Eptalofosuchus, Eunotosuchia, Libycosuchidae, Llanosuchus, Mahajangasuchidae, Peirosauridae, Peirosaurimorpha, Trematochampsa, Trematochampsa taqueti, Ziphosuchia

Subtaxa: Araripesuchus buitreraensis Araripesuchus gomesii Araripesuchus patagonicus Araripesuchus rattoides Araripesuchus tsangatsangana Araripesuchus wegeneri

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Ecology: carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Argentina (3 collections), Brazil (3), Cameroon (2), Madagascar (1), Malawi (1), Morocco (2), Niger (4), Tunisia (2)

Total: 18 collections each including a single occurrence

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