Chalawan thailandicus Buffetaut and Ingavat 1980

Reptilia - Loricata - Pholidosauridae

Alternative combination: Sunosuchus thailandicus

Full reference: E. Buffetaut and R. Ingavat. 1980. A new crocodilian from the Jurassic of Thailand, Sunosuchus thailandicus n. sp. (Mesosuchia, Goniopholididae), and the palaeogeographical history of south-east Asia in the Mesozoic. Géobios 13(6):879-889

Belongs to Chalawan according to J. E. Martin et al. 2013

See also Buffetaut and Ingavat 1980, Buffetaut and Ingavat 1984, Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2015 and Schellhorn et al. 2009

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: TF 1370, a mandible (Near-complete mandible lacking part of the right ramus). Its type locality is Bua Lam Phu, which is in a Tithonian/Berriasian fluvial-lacustrine conglomerate in the Phu Kradung Formation of Thailand.

Distribution:

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Thailand (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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