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Roxochampsa paulistanus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Goniopholis paulistanus was named by Roxo (1935). Its type specimen is DGM 258-R, a set of teeth (Two teeth and tibia), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Railway cutting between Jupiá and Araçatuba, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian terrestrial horizon in the Adamantina Formation of Brazil. It is the type species of Roxochampsa.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Andrade et al. (2011); it was recombined as Roxochampsa paulistanus by Piacentini Pinheiro et al. (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1935Goniopholis paulistanus Roxo
2018Roxochampsa paulistanus Piacentini Pinheiro et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
—Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
—SuchiaKrebs 1974
—Paracrocodylomorpha
—Loricata(Merrem 1820)
—Crocodylomorpha()
—Solidocrania
suborderCrocodyliformes
—MesoeucrocodyliaWhetstone and Whybrow 1983
infraorderNotosuchiaGasparini 1971
—ZiphosuchiaOrtega et al. 2000
—Sebecia
—Itasuchidae()
genusRoxochampsa
speciespaulistanus()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marineuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: carnivoresubo
Created: 2017-04-17 10:39:01
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:39:01
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Bush and Bambach 2015, Benton 1983

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 83.50000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian83.5 - 66.0Brazil (São Paulo) Goniopholis paulistanus (type locality: 114999) Roxochampsa paulistanus, Crocodylomorpha indet. (57003)