Brasilosuchus Temporal range: Miocene,
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
Clade: | Archosauriformes |
Order: | Crocodilia |
Family: | Gavialidae |
Genus: | †Brasilosuchus Souza-Filho & Bocquentin-Villanueva, 1989 |
Species: | †B. mendesi
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Binomial name | |
†Brasilosuchus mendesi Souza-Filho & Bocquentin-Villanueva, 1989
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Brasilosuchus is an extinct monospecific genus of crocodilian that lived during the Miocene of Brazil. It contains one species, Brasilosuchus mendesi, named by Jonas Souza-Filho and Jean Bocquentin-Villanueva in 1989. They subsequently re-identified it as a species of Charactosuchus in a 1993 conference abstract, but this conclusion has not been accepted since it was not published. Along with Charactosuchus, it is possibly a member of Tomistominae, but they have not been included in a phylogenetic analysis. If this interpretation is correct, then they would have originated from North American ancestors in the first dispersal of the group into the Americas.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Cidade, G.M.; Fortier, D.; Hsiou, A.S. (2019). "The crocodylomorph fauna of the Cenozoic of South America and its evolutionary history: a review". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 90: 392–411. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2018.12.026.