Oxysdonsaurus

Oxysdonsaurus
Temporal range: Oligocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Subclass: Diapsida
Infraclass: Archosauromorpha
(unranked): Crurotarsi
Superorder: Crocodylomorpha
Order: Crocodilia
Family: Crocodylidae
Genus: Oxysdonsaurus
Ambrosetti, 1890
Species
  • O. striatus Ambrosetti, 1890 (type)

Oxysdonsaurus is an extinct genus of crocodylid crocodilian. Fossils have been found from the Paraná Basin in Argentina that date back to the Oligocene.[1][2] According to Edward Drinker Cope, the generic name is a misspelling of the intended name Oxyodontosaurus.[3] The genus is known only from a single tooth and is thus considered indeterminate.[4][5]

References

  1. Ambrosetti, J. B. (1890). "Observaciones sobre los reptiles fosiles Oligocenos de los terrenos Terciarios antiquos del Parana". Academia Nacional de Ciencias of Cordova. 10: 409–426.
  2. Markwick, P. J. (1998). "Crocodilian diversity in space and time: the role of climate in paleoecology and its implication for understanding K/T extinctions". Paleobiology. 24 (4): 470–497.
  3. Cope, E. D. (1893). "Geology and Paleontology: Fossil Reptiles from the Parana". The American Naturalist. 27 (316): 375–379. doi:10.1086/275717.
  4. Rusconi, C. (1935). "Observaciones sobre los gaviales fosiles Argentinos". Annales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina. 119: 203–214.
  5. Patterson, B. (1936). "Caiman latirostris from the Pleistocene of Argentina, and a summary of South American Cenozoic Crocodilia". Herpetologica. 1 (2): 43–45+47–54.


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