Reptilia - Loricata - Peirosauridae
Full reference: I. d. S. Carvalho, F. M. d. Vasconcellos, and S. A. S. Tavares. 2007. Montealtosuchus arrudacamposi, a new peirosaurid crocodile (Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Late Cretaceous Adamantina Formation of Brazil. Zootaxa 1607:35-46
Belongs to Montealtosuchus according to J. J. W. Sertich and P. M. O'Connor 2014
See also Bronzati et al. 2012, Carvalho et al. 2011 and Carvalho et al. 2007
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MPMA-16-0007-04, a partial skeleton (Skull, mandible and almost complete axial and appendicular skeleton, and articulated dorsal and ventral exoskeleton (osteoderms).). Its type locality is Rural road at Monte Alto and Taiaçu border, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian fine channel fill sandstone in the Adamantina Formation of Brazil.
Ecology: planktonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Rural road at Monte Alto and Taiaçu border
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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