Kambara taraina Buchanan 2009 (crocodilian)

Reptilia - Crocodylia

Full reference: L. A. Buchanan. 2009. Kambara taraina sp. nov. (Crocodylia, Crocodyloidea), a New Eocene Mekosuchine from Queensland, Australia, and a revision of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(2):473-486

Belongs to Kambara according to L. A. Buchanan 2009

Sister taxa: Kambara implexidens, Kambara molnari, Kambara murgonensis

Type specimen: QM F49454, a skull. Its type locality is Stuart Deposit, The Narrows Graben (Kerosene Creek), which is in an Eocene/Eocene lacustrine mudstone in the Rundle Formation of Australia.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: found only at Stuart Deposit, The Narrows Graben (Kerosene Creek)

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