Brasileosaurus
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Brasileosaurus Temporal range: Maastrichtian
~ | |
---|---|
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Superorder: | Crocodylomorpha |
Suborder: | †Notosuchia |
Family: | †Notosuchidae |
Genus: | †Brasileosaurus Huene, 1931 |
Species: | †B. pachecoi
|
Binomial name | |
†Brasileosaurus pachecoi Huene, 1931
|
Brasileosaurus (meaning "Brazil lizard") is a genus of notosuchid notosuchian from the Late Cretaceous Adamantina Formation of Brazil. The type species is B. pachecoi, discovered by the Brazilian Eng. Joviano Pacheco and described by the prolific German paleontologist Friedrich von Huene in 1931.
Brasileosaurus is not to be confused with the mesosaur Brazilosaurus.
Classification
Although originally classified as a coelurosaur in the original description, it was later recognized as being a crocodylomorph, possibly synonymous with Uruguaysuchus.[1][2] In his description of Sebecus, George Gaylord Simpson assigned Brasileosaurus to Notosuchidae, noting similarities with members of Mesoeucrocodylia.[3]
References
- ^ Huene, 1931. Verschiedene mesozoische Wirbeltierreste aus Südamerika [Different Mesozoic vertebrate remains from South America]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Abteilung A. 66, 181-198.
- ^ Huene, 1933. Ein Versuch zur Stammesgeschichte der Krokodile. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Abteilung B. 11, 577-585.
- ^ Simpson. 1937. An ancient eusuchian crocodile from Patagonia. American Museum Novitates. 965, 1-20.
Error: "Q986418" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description with empty Wikidata description
- Articles with 'species' microformats
- Taxonbars desynced from Wikidata
- Taxonbar pages requiring a Wikidata item
- Taxonbars with invalid from parameters
- Taxonbars without secondary Wikidata taxon IDs
- Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera
- Maastrichtian life
- Late Cretaceous crocodylomorphs of South America
- Cretaceous Brazil
- Fossils of Brazil
- Adamantina Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 1931
- Taxa named by Friedrich von Huene
- All stub articles
- Prehistoric archosaur stubs