Coelosuchus
| Coelosuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Family: | †Goniopholididae |
| Genus: | †Coelosuchus Williston, 1906 |
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| †Coelosuchus reedii Williston, 1906 |
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Coelosuchus is an extinct genus of goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian.[1]Fossils have been found from the Graneros Shale of the Benton Group in Wyoming, and are of Cenomanian age.[2] It was slightly over 1 meter in length.
References
- ^ Carroll, R.L. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. WH Freeman and Company, New York ISBN 0-7167-1822-7
- ^ Williston, S. W. (1906). American Amphicoelian Crocodiles. Journal of Geology 14:1-17.
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