Adamantinasuchus navae Nobre and Carvalho 2006 (crocodilian)

Reptilia - Loricata - Sphagesauridae

Alternative combination: Adamantinasuchus amarali

Full reference: P. H. Nobre and I. d. S. Carvalho. 2006. Adamantinasuchus navae: A new Gondwanan Crocodylomorpha (Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. Gondwana Research 10:370-378

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

See also Bronzati et al. 2012, Carvalho et al. 2011, Nascimento and Zaher 2010, Nobre and Carvalho 2006 and Turner and Sertich 2010

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UFRJ-DG 107-R, a partial skeleton (partial skull and fragments of the femora, some vertebrae, part of the radius and ulna and some metatarsal and phalanges). Its type locality is MarĂ­lia reservoir dam locality, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian terrestrial sandstone in the Adamantina Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: found only at MarĂ­lia reservoir dam locality

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