Reptilia - Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Alternative combination: Nettosuchus atopus
Full reference: W. Langston. 1965. Fossil crocodilians from Colombia and the Cenozoic history of the Crocodilia in South America. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 52:1-169
Belongs to Mourasuchus according to D. Riff et al. 2010
See also Bocquentin Villanueva 1984, Langston 1965, Langston 1966, Langston and Gasparini 1997 and Tineo et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Mourasuchus amazonensis, Mourasuchus arendsi, Mourasuchus pattersoni
Type specimen: UCMP 38012, a partial skeleton (Fragmentary skull and jaws and associated postcranial elements). Its type locality is UCMP Locality V-4523, which is in a Laventan terrestrial claystone in Colombia.
Distribution:
• Miocene of Colombia (6 collections), Peru (2)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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