Reptilia - Crocodylia - Alligatoridae

Alternative combination: Melanosuchus fischeri

Full reference: C. J. Medina. 1976. Crocodilians from the Late Tertiary of northwestern Venezuela: Melanosuchus fisheri sp. nov. Breviora 438:1-14

Belongs to Melanosuchus according to C. A. Brochu 2020

See also Bona et al. 2017, Brochu 1999, Medina 1976 and Riff et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Melanosuchus latrubessei, Melanosuchus niger

Type specimen: MCNC 243, a partial skull. Its type locality is Corralito Locality, which is in a Miocene terrestrial horizon in the Urumaco Formation of Venezuela.

Ecology: planktonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Corralito Locality

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.