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On a new peirosaurid crocodyliform from the Upper Cretaceous, Bauru Group, southeastern Brazil | |
Diogenes A. Campos2  Gustavo R. Oliveira1  Rodrigo G. Figueiredo1  Douglas Riff1  Sergio A.k. Azevedo1  Luciana B. Carvalho1  Alexander W.a. Kellner1  | |
[1] ,Departamento Nacional de Produção Mineral Museu de Ciências da Terra Rio de Janeiro RJ ,Brasil | |
关键词: Pepesuchus; Peirosauridae; Cretaceous; Bauru Group; Brazil; Pepesuchus; Peirosauridae; Cretáceo; Grupo Bauru; Brasil; | |
DOI : 10.1590/S0001-37652011000100020 | |
来源: SciELO | |
【 摘 要 】
A new crocodyliform from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) Presidente Prudente Formation of the Bauru Group is described based on two almost complete skulls and mandibles. The material comes from the "Tartaruguito" site, situated at an old railroad between the cities of Pirapozinho and Presidente Prudente, state of São Paulo, Brazil. The new species, Pepesuchus deiseae gen. et sp. nov., is classified in the clade Peirosauridae on the basis of three synapomorphies: the presence of five premaxillary teeth, the anterior two premaxillary alveoli nearly confluent, and the oval cross-section of the jugal along the lower temporal bar. The new taxon increases the outstanding crocodyliform diversity of the Bauru Group, particularly of the Peirosauridae, which might turn out to be one of the most representative clades of gondwanan mesoeucrocodylians.
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