Peipehsuchus teleorhinus Young 1948 (marine crocodile)

Reptilia - Loricata

Full reference: C. -C. Young. 1948. Fossil crocodiles in China, with notes on dinosaurian remains associated with the Kansu crocodiles. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 28(3-4):255-288

Belongs to Peipehsuchus according to C. -C. Young 1948

See also Bronzati et al. 2012

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Tsochiehtze, which is in a Cretaceous terrestrial horizon in the Tzeliuching Formation of China

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Tsochiehtze

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