Trematochampsa
Name:
Trematochampsa.
Phonetic: Tre-mat-o-champ-sa.
Named By: E. Buffetaut - 1974.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Archosauromorpha, Crurotarsi, Crocodylomorpha,
Mesoeucrocodylia, Trematochampsidae.
Species: T. taqueti (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Niger - In Beceten Formation.
Time period: Cenomanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Trematochampsa is a genus of crocodile that lived in what is now Niger during the Late Cretaceous. A second species named in 1979 as T. oblita has now been reassigned to its own genus, Miadanasuchus. Trematochampsa is now considered to be more of a nomen dubium since these fossils are actually made up of a mixture of individuals, with no clear distinguishing features for the holotype.
Further reading
- Trematochampsa taqueti, un Crocodilien
nouveau du Sénonian
inférieur du Niger. - Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences
(Paris) 279: 1749–1752. - E. Buffetaut - 1974.
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- Un nouveau Crocodilien mésosuchien dans le Campanien de
Madagascar, Trematochampsa oblita, n.sp. - Bulletin de la
Société Géologique de France 2: 183–188. - E. Buffetaut
& P. Taquet - 1979.
- New Material of "Trematochampsa" Oblita
(Crocodyliformes,Trematochampsidae) from the Late Cretaceous of
Madagascar. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 (2):
599–604. - Erin L. Rasmusson Simons & Gregory A.
Buckley - 2009.
- Trematochampsa taqueti as a nomen dubium
and the crocodyliform
diversity of the Upper Cretaceous In Beceten Formation of Niger. -
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. in press (3): 659–680. - L.
M. V. Meunier & H. C. E. Larsson - 2018.
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