Baurusuchus albertoi Nascimento and Zaher 2010 (crocodilian)

Reptilia - Loricata - Baurusuchidae

Full reference: P. M. Nascimento and H. Zaher. 2010. A new species of Baurusuchus (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil, with the first complete postcranial skeleton described for the family Baurusuchidae. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 50(21):323-361

Belongs to Baurusuchus according to P. L. Godoy et al. 2014

See also Carvalho et al. 2011, Montefeltro et al. 2011, Nascimento and Zaher 2010, Nascimento and Zaher 2011 and Pol et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Baurusuchus pachecoi, Baurusuchus salgadoensis

Type specimen: MZSP-PV 140, a partial skeleton (right posterior portion of a skull with mandible, part of the hyoid apparatus, a complete postcranium lacking only the 12th, 17th, and terminal caudal vertebrae). Its type locality is Boa Esperança farm, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian fluvial sandstone in the Adamantina Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: found only at Boa Esperança farm

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