Also known as Carnufex carolinensis type
Where: Chatham County, North Carolina (35.6° N, 79.0° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° N, 17.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pekin Formation (Chatham Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)
• Pekin Formation, Chatham Group, Newark Supergroup, ,231 Ma
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; intraclastic, red conglomerate and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: NCSM: North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh
Primary reference: L. E. Zanno, S. Drymala, S. J. Nesbitt and V. P. Schneider. 2015. Early crocodylomorph increases top tier predator diversity during rise of dinosaurs. Scientific Reports 5(9276):1-6 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 169982: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 09.06.2015, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Carnufex carolinensis n. gen. n. sp.
Carnufex carolinensis n. gen. n. sp. Zanno et al. 2015 crocodilian NCSM 21558 - holotype (partial skull and postcranial skeleton including: right dentigerous premaxilla, left maxilla, left lacrimal, left jugal, left articular, right angular, isolated maxillary tooth, cervical neural arch, dorsal neural arch, cervical rib, dorsal ribs, and left humerus); referred materials: NCSM 21623 (partial right humerus)
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Coahomasuchus chathamensis n. sp.1, Desmatosuchinae indet.2, ? Desmatosuchinae indet.2, Gorgetosuchus pekinensis n. gen. n. sp.2, cf. Lucasuchus sp.2
Coahomasuchus chathamensis n. sp.1 Heckert et al. 2017 aetosaur Coahomasuchus sp. of Heckert et al. (2015). NCSM 23618 (Holotype: an incomplete, articulated skeleton)
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