Hoplosuchus kayi Gilmore 1926 (crocodilian)

Reptilia - Loricata - Protosuchidae

Full reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1926. A new aetosaurian reptile from the Morrison Formation of Utah. Annals of Carnegie Museum 16:325-348

Belongs to Hoplosuchus according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Gilmore 1926 and Stokes 1949

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CM 11361, a skeleton (Nearly complete articulated specimen). Its type locality is Dinosaur National Monument Quarry (CM), which is in a Tithonian coarse channel fill sandstone in the Morrison Formation of Utah.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: found only at Dinosaur National Monument Quarry (CM)

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