Araripesuchus gomesii Price 1959 (crocodilian)

Reptilia - Loricata

Alternative combination: Araripesuchus gomesi

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

Belongs to Araripesuchus according to J. J. W. Sertich and P. M. O'Connor 2014

See also Bronzati et al. 2012, Montefeltro et al. 2011, Nascimento and Zaher 2011, Nobre and Carvalho 2006, Pol et al. 2014, Sereno and Larsson 2009, Turner 2006 and Turner and Sertich 2010

Sister taxa: Araripesuchus buitreraensis, Araripesuchus patagonicus, Araripesuchus rattoides, Araripesuchus tsangatsangana, Araripesuchus wegeneri

Type specimen: DGM-DNPM 432-R, a partial skull. Its type locality is Ladeira da Berlenga, which is in an Aptian lagoonal horizon in the Romualdo Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Brazil (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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