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ZULMASUCHUS
(zul-mah-soo-kus)
meaning: "Zulma's crocodile, named after Zulma Gasparini"
Named By: unavailable
Time Period: Early Paleocene (Tiupampan-Peligran)~65.5-61.7 Ma
Location: Bolivia - Santa Lucia Formation
Size: Uncertain
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Partial skull remains
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Crocodylomorpha | Notosuchia | Sebecosuchia | Sebecidae |
Also known as: | Sebecus querejazus |
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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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