Reptilia - Loricata - Sphagesauridae

Alternative combination: Sphagesaurus montealtensis

Full reference: M. B. d. Andrade and R. J. Bertini. 2008. A new Sphagesaurus (Mesoeucrocodylia: Notosuchia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Monte Alto City (Bauru Group, Brazil), and a revision of the Sphagesauridae. Historical Biology 20(2):101-136

Belongs to Caipirasuchus according to A. G. Martinelli et al. 2018

See also Andrade and Bertini 2008, Bronzati et al. 2012, Carvalho et al. 2011, Iori et al. 2013, Pol et al. 2014, Sertich and O'Connor 2014 and Turner and Sertich 2010

Sister taxa: Caipirasuchus attenboroughi, Caipirasuchus catanduvensis, Caipirasuchus mineirus, Caipirasuchus paulistanus, Caipirasuchus stenognathus

Type specimen: MPMA 15-001/90, a skull (Skull and mandible). Its type locality is Bairro Cachoeira, Monte Alto, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian fluvial sandstone in the Adamantina Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: found only at Bairro Cachoeira, Monte Alto

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