Vectisuchus
Appearance
Vectisuchus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Family: | †Pholidosauridae |
Genus: | †Vectisuchus Buffetaut & Hutt, 1980 |
Species | |
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Vectisuchus is a genus of goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian, known from the Early Cretaceous-age Wealden Group of the Isle of Wight, England. It was a small, piscivorous crocodylomorph with a narrow, elongate snout, and relatively long forearms. The type specimen, SMNS 50984, was found in 1977. When discovered, it was complete and right-side-up, but the posterior portion was lost during excavation. Vectisuchus was described in 1980. The type species is V. leptognathus.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Buffetaut, E.; Hutt, S. (1980). "Vectisuchus leptognathus, n.g. n. sp., a slender-snouted goniopholid crocodilian from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte. 1980 (7): 385–390. doi:10.1127/njgpm/1980/1980/385.
External links
[edit]- Vectisuchus in the Paleobiology Database
- Vectisuchus at DinoWight