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Zholsuchus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Sauropsida

Family
  
?Goniopholididae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Superorder
  
Crocodylomorpha

Genus
  
Zholsuchus Nesov et al., 1989

Zholsuchus is a genus of crocodyliform that may have been a goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian, but is only known from scanty material (a right premaxilla, one of the bones of the tip of the snout). This specimen was found in the Coniacian-age Upper Cretaceous Bissekty Formation of Dzharakhuduk, Uzbekistan. Zholsuchus was described in 1989 by Lev Nesov and colleagues. The type species is Z. procevus. A 2000 review by Glenn Storrs and Mikhail Efimov designated Zholsuchus a dubious name.

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Zholsuchus Wikipedia