Reptilia - Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
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
Parent taxon: Crocodylidae according to D. Riff et al. 2010
See also Carroll 1988, Cidade et al. 2019, Domning and Clark 1993, Langston 1965 and Piras et al. 2007
Sister taxa: Aldabrachampsus, Crocodylinae, Euthecodontinae, Leptorramphus, Osteolaeminae, Oxysdonsaurus, Oxysdonsaurus striatus, Thoracosaurinae, Tzaganosuchus, Zhyrasuchus
Subtaxa: Charactosuchus fieldsi Charactosuchus kugleri Charactosuchus sansoai
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Brazil (2 collections), Colombia (2), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of Jamaica (2)
Total: 7 collections including 9 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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