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Allodaposuchus megadontos

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Lohuecosuchus megadontos was named by Narváez et al. (2015). Its type specimen is HUE-04498, a skull (Complete skull and right lower jaw), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lo Hueco, Fuentes (G1), which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian wet floodplain mudstone/sandstone in the Villalba de la Sierra Formation of Spain.

It was recombined as Allodaposuchus megadontos by Blanco (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2015Lohuecosuchus megadontos Narváez et al.
2021Allodaposuchus megadontos Blanco

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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()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—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
—NeosuchiaClark 1988
suborderEusuchiaHuxley 1875
—Allodaposuchidae
genusAllodaposuchusNopcsa 1928
speciesmegadontos()

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.

†Allodaposuchus megadontos Narváez et al. 2015
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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: Benton 1983, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 83.60000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian83.6 - 66.0Spain (Castilla-La Mancha) Allodaposuchus sp. (type locality: 91781) Lohuecosuchus megadontos (128273)