Peipehsuchus

Peipehsuchus
Temporal range: 183–176 Ma

Toarcian

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Infraclass: Archosauromorpha
(unranked): Mesoeucrocodylia
Suborder: Thalattosuchia
Family: Teleosauridae
Genus: Peipehsuchus
Young, 1948
Species
  • P. teleorhinus (type)

Peipehsuchus is an extinct genus of teleosaurid crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian). The type species, P. teleorhinus, is known from China and fragmentary remains were found in the Callovian of Kyrgyzstan.[1]

References

  1. Storrs, Glenn W. and Efimov, M. Mesozoic crocodyliforms of north-central Eurasia, Chapter 20 of The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Michael J. Benton,Mikhail A. Shishkin,David M. Unwin, Cambridge University Press, 2003, page 414.

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