Vectisuchus Buffetaut and Hutt 1980 (crocodilian)

Reptilia - Loricata

Full reference: E. Buffetaut and S. Hutt. 1980. Vectisuchus leptognathus, n. g. n. sp., a slender-snouted goniopholid crocodilian from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight . Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 7:385-390

Parent taxon: Dyrosauroidea according to S. Jouve et al. 2021

See also Andrade et al. 2011, Bronzati et al. 2012, Buffetaut and Hutt 1980, Carroll 1988, Jouve and Jalil 2020, Lauprasert et al. 2007, Martin et al. 2016 and Souza et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Dyrosauridae, Elosuchus

Subtaxa: Vectisuchus leptognathus

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Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: found only at Barnes High locality (Wealden) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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