Kingdom Animalia Family †Comahuesuchidae Rank Genus | Class Reptilia Phylum Chordata | |
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Scientific name Comahuesuchus brachybuccalis Similar Uruguaysuchus, Notosuchus, Mariliasuchus, Chimaerasuchus, Bretesuchus | ||
Comahuesuchus is an extinct genus of notosuchian crocodylomorph from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina. It was described by palaeontologist José Bonaparte in 1991.
Contents
The type species is C. brachybuccalis.
Material
The holotype of C. brachybuccalis is MUCPv-202.
Systematics
Comahuesuchus is the name-sake of the clade Comahuesuchidae. Sereno et al. (2003) suggested that Comahuesuchus and Anatosuchus are both comahuesuchids, but work by Martinelli and Andrade et al. (2006), has suggested that A. minor is not a comahuesuchid. Comahuesuchus seems instead to be more closely related to Mariliasuchus.
References
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