Atacisaurus
Atacisaurus is an extinct dubious genus of gavialoid crocodylian. Fossils have been found in France that date back to the Middle Eocene.[1]
| Atacisaurus Temporal range: Middle Eocene | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Family: | Gavialidae |
| Genus: | †Atacisaurus Astre, 1931 |
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A second nominal species of this genus, Atacisaurus crassiproratus, was reclassified as a sebecosuchian in the 1990s, listed as cf. Iberosuchus before being recognized as distinct from Iberosuchus by Martin et Al. (2023) and renamed Dentaneosuchus [2]
References
- Stéphane Jouve (2016). "A new basal tomistomine (Crocodylia, Crocodyloidea) from Issel (Middle Eocene; France): palaeobiogeography of basal tomistomines and palaeogeographic consequences". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177 (1): 165–182. doi:10.1111/zoj.12357.
- Martin, J. E.; Pochat-Cottilloux, Y.; Laurent, Y.; Perrier, V.; Robert, E.; Antoine, P.-O. (2023). "Anatomy and phylogeny of an exceptionally large sebecid (Crocodylomorpha) from the middle Eocene of southern France". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. e2193828. doi:10.1080/02724634.2023.2193828.
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