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Zulmasuchus

Zulmasuchus
Temporal range: Early Paleocene, 65.5–61.7 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Branch: Sebecosuchia
Clade: Sebecia
Family: Sebecidae
Genus: Zulmasuchus
Paolillo & Linares, 2007
Type species
Zulmasuchus querejazus
(Buffetaut & Marshall, 1991)
Synonyms
  • Sebecus querejazusBuffetaut & Marshall, 1991)

Zulmasuchus (meaning "Zulma Gasparini's crocodile") is an extinct genus of sebecid sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian. Its fossils have been found in Early Paleocene-age rocks (Danian stage) of the Santa Lucia Formation in Bolivia.Zulmasuchus was named in 2007 by Alfredo Paolillo and Omar Linares for fossils originally described by Buffetaut and Marshall in 1991 as Sebecus querejazus. Thus, the type species is Z. querejazus.


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