Where: Seychelles (9.4° S, 46.5° E: paleocoordinates 9.4° S, 46.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Aldabra Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: C. A. Brochu. 2006. A New Miniature Horned Crocodile from the Quaternary of Aldabra Atoll, Western Indian Ocean. Copeia 2006(2):149-158 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 143531: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 24.04.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Aldabrachampsus dilophus n. gen. n. sp.
Aldabrachampsus dilophus n. gen. n. sp. Brochu 2006 crocodile NHMUK R8795 (right half of frontal; posterior half of parietal; right and left squamosals; partial right exoccipital; partial right dentary; several partial surangulars; partial left articular; several vertebrae; left femur. Material probably represents multiple individuals); Paratypes: BMNH R8767, partial pterygoid; BMNH 8768, partial right ectopterygoid; BMNH R8769, right premaxilla; BMNH R8770, partial right premaxilla; BMNH 8771, partial left premaxilla; BMNH R8784, frontal; BMNH R8786, right prefrontal; BMNH R8789, right ectopterygoid; BMNH R8790, left squamosal; BMNH R8792, right squamosal; BMNH R8793, left squamosal; BMNH R8794; BMNH 8796, fragment of dentary and left surangular
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