| Coelosuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Family: | †Goniopholididae |
| Genus: | †Coelosuchus Williston, 1906 |
| Type species | |
| †Coelosuchus reedii Williston, 1906 | |
Coelosuchus is an extinct genus of goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian.[1] Fossils have been found from the Graneros Shale of the Benton Group in Wyoming, and are of Cenomanian age.[2] It was slightly over 1 meter in length.
References
- ↑ Carroll, R.L. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. WH Freeman and Company, New York ISBN 0-7167-1822-7
- ↑ Williston, S. W. (1906). American Amphicoelian Crocodiles. Journal of Geology 14:1-17.
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