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BARREIROSUCHUS
(bar-re-i-ro-soo-kus)
meaning: "Barreiro crocodile"
Named By: Fabiano Vidoi Iori & Karina Lucia Garcia in 2012
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, Turonian-Santonian
Location: Brazil - Adamantina Formation
Size: Body estimated about 4 meters long, complete skull estimated about 50 centimetres long
Diet: Carnivore/Pisicvore
Fossil(s): Posterior (rear) portion of the skull, six teeth, two dorsal (back) vertebrae and two sacral (hip) vertebrae
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Crocodylomorpha | Notosuchia | Trematochampsidae |
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Barreirosuchus is an extinct genus of trematochampsid notosuchian known from the Late Cretaceous of Sao Paulo State, southeastern Brazil. It contains a single species, Barreirosuchus franciscoi. It is most closely resembles Caririsuchus camposi from the Araripe Basin and Itasuchus jesuinoi also from the Bauru Basin, and shares with them several synapomorphies.

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