Reptilia - Loricata - Sphagesauridae
Full reference: L. I. Price. 1950. On a new crocodilian, Sphagesaurus, from the Cretaceous of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 22(1):77-83
Belongs to Sphagesaurus according to J. J. W. Sertich and P. M. O'Connor 2014
See also Andrade and Bertini 2008, Bronzati et al. 2012, Carvalho et al. 2011, Nobre and Carvalho 2006, Pol 2003, Pol et al. 2014 and Turner and Sertich 2010
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: DGM 332-R, a tooth (isolated maxillary tooth). Its type locality is Guajussara, railway cut of the Estrada de Ferro Sorocabana, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian terrestrial horizon in the Adamantina Formation of Brazil.
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Brazil (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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