Hispanochampsa
Hispanochampsa is an extinct genus of alligatoroid crocodilian.[1] More than 100 fossils dating back to the Oligocene have been found from Lleida, Spain. The genus was first named in 1936, and was initially thought to be an alligatorid.[2] However, in 2006 it was proposed that Hispanochampsa was a member of the subfamily Diplocynodontinae and possibly synonymous with Diplocynodon based on the presence of paired ossifications of the ventral osteoderms and a widened illiac blade. It has been suggested on the basis of the wide jugal foramen and dentary occlusion that Hispanochampsa was closely related to a contemporary Spanish species of Diplocynodon, D. tormis.[3]
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| Genus: | †Hispanochampsa Kälin, 1936 |
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| †Hispanochampsa muelleri Kälin, 1936 | |
References
- Hispanochampsa in the Paleobiology Database
- Kälin, J. A. (1936). "Hispanochampsa mülleri nov. gen. nov. sp". Abh. Schweizer. Palaeontol. Gesellschaft. 58: 1–39.
- Piras, P.; Buscalioni, A. D. (2006). "Diplocynodon muelleri comb. nov., an Oligocene diplocynodontine alligatoroid from Catalonia (Ebro Basin, Lleida province, Spain)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26 (3): 608–620. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[608:DMCNAO]2.0.CO;2.
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