Symptosuchus

Symptosuchus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Family: †Goniopholididae
Genus: †Symptosuchus
Ameghino, 1899
Type species
†Symptosuchus contortidens
Ameghino, 1899

Symptosuchus is an extinct genus of goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian. It is known from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina. Argentine paleontologist Florentino Ameghino named the genus in 1899, along with the type species S. contortidens. It was formally described by Carlos Rusconi in 1934.

References

  1. ↑ "Répartition géographique des fossiles de "Crocodiles"". Paleopedia. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
  2. ↑ Ameghino, F. (1899). Sinopsis geologico-paleontologica de la Argentina: Suplemento. La Plata: Adiciones y correcciones. p. 13.
  3. ↑ Rusconi, C. (1934). "Posicion estratigrafica y relaciones zoologicas de los cocodrilianos Argentinos extinguidos". Bol. Pal. Buenos Aires. 4: 7–12.
  4. ↑ Camp, C.I (1942). Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates 1934-1938. Geological Society of America Special Papers. Vol. 42. p. 668.