Hulkepholis plotos Buscalioni et al. 2013 (crocodilian)

Reptilia - Loricata - Goniopholididae

Full reference: A. D. Buscalioni, L. Alcalá, E. Espílez and L. Mampel. 2013. European Goniopholididae from the Early Albian Escucha Formation in Ariño (Teruel, Aragón, España). Spanish Journal of Paleontology 28(1):103-121

Belongs to Hulkepholis according to I. Arribas et al. 2019

See also Buscalioni et al. 2013, Martin et al. 2016 and Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Hulkepholis rori, Hulkepholis willetti

Type specimen: AR-1/56, a partial skeleton (Skull, 3 vertebrae, rib, metapodial & 3 osteoderms). Its type locality is Santa Maria Mine, Ariño (AR-1), which is in an Albian mire/swamp coal/mudstone in the Escucha Formation of Spain.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: found only at Santa Maria Mine, Ariño (AR-1)

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