Chalawan (reptile)

Chalawan
Temporal range: Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous
~150–140 Ma
Known remains of C. thailandicus specimen PRC102-143 (left), and reconstruction of the skull of C. thailandicus (right)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Crocodyliformes
Family: †Pholidosauridae
Genus: †Chalawan
Martin et al., 2013
Type species
†Chalawan thailandicus
(Buffetaut and Ingavat, 1980)
Other species
  • Chalawan shartegensis? Efimov, 1988
Synonyms

Sunosuchus thailandicus Buffetaut and Ingavat, 1980

? Sunosuchus shartegensis Efimov, 1988

Chalawan (from Thai: ชาละวัน [t͡ɕʰāːlāwān]) is an extinct genus of pholidosaurid mesoeucrocodylian known from the Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous Phu Kradung Formation of Nong Bua Lamphu Province, northeastern Thailand. It contains a single species, Chalawan thailandicus,[1][2] with Chalawan shartegensis as a possible second species.

  1. ^ Martin, J. E.; Lauprasert, K.; Buffetaut, E.; Liard, R. & Suteethorn, V. (2013). "A large pholidosaurid in the Phu Kradung Formation of north-eastern Thailand". Palaeontology. 57 (4): 757–769. doi:10.1111/pala.12086.
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