Symptosuchus Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Family: | † Goniopholididae |
Genus: | †
Symptosuchus Ameghino, 1899 |
Type species | |
†Symptosuchus contortidens Ameghino, 1899
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Symptosuchus is an extinct genus of goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian. It is known from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina. [1] Argentine paleontologist Florentino Ameghino named the genus in 1899, along with the type species S. contortidens. [2] It was formally described by Carlos Rusconi in 1934. [3] [4]