Reptilia - Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Full reference: J. Leidy. 1852. Description of a new species of crocodile from the Miocene of Virginia. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2(2):135-138
Belongs to Crocodilus according to J. Leidy 1852
See also Cope 1869, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Jouve 2016, Myrick 2001, Rio and Mannion 2021 and Weems 2018
Sister taxa: Crocodilus (Ichthyosuchus), Crocodilus biporcatus, Crocodilus ziphodon, Crocodylus (Leptorhynchus), Crocodylus acer, Crocodylus acutus, Crocodylus affinis, Crocodylus americanus, Crocodylus anthropophagus, Crocodylus aptus, Crocodylus bambolii, Crocodylus caralitanus, Crocodylus chamensis, Crocodylus checchiai, Crocodylus elliotti, Crocodylus falconensis, Crocodylus gariepensis, Crocodylus gaudense, Crocodylus greenwoodi, Crocodylus grypus, Crocodylus intermedius, Crocodylus johnstoni, Crocodylus megarhinus, Crocodylus mindorensis, Crocodylus moreletii, Crocodylus niloticus, Crocodylus niloticus kaisensis, Crocodylus novaeguineae, Crocodylus palaeindicus, Crocodylus palustris, Crocodylus parvus, Crocodylus polyodon, Crocodylus porosus, Crocodylus raninus, Crocodylus rhombifer, Crocodylus siamensis, Crocodylus solaris, Crocodylus stavelianus, Crocodylus subulatus, Crocodylus suchus, Crocodylus sulciferus, Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni, Crocodylus wheelerii, Crocodylus ziphodon, Limnosaurus
Type specimen: ANSP 9188 and 9189, a partial skeleton (2 teeth, 2 vertebrae, a rib fragment, and an ungual phalanx). Its type locality is Potomac River, Stratford Hall Plantation, which is in a Serravallian marine horizon in the Choptank Formation of Virginia.
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution: found only at Potomac River, Stratford Hall Plantation
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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