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Coelosuchus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Crocodyliformes
Family: †Goniopholididae
Genus: †Coelosuchus
Williston, 1906
Type species
†Coelosuchus reedii
Williston, 1906

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

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  1. ^ Carroll, R.L. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. WH Freeman and Company, New York ISBN 0-7167-1822-7
  2. ^ Williston, S. W. (1906). American Amphicoelian Crocodiles. Journal of Geology 14:1-17.


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