Dolichochampsa Temporal range: Maastrichtian
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Clade: | Metasuchia |
Clade: | Neosuchia |
Clade: | Eusuchia |
Family: | †Dolichochampsidae De Gasparini & Buffetaut 1980 |
Genus: | †Dolichochampsa Gasparini & Buffetaut 1980 |
Type species | |
†Dolichochampsa minima Gasparini & Buffetaut 1980
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Dolichochampsa is an extinct genus of eusuchian crocodylomorph. It is the type genus and only member of the family Dolichochampsidae.[1] Fossils have been found in the Yacoraite Formation of Argentina and the El Molino Formation of Bolivia of Maastrichtian age.[2] It had a distinctive slender snout.[3] Because the material associated with the specimens is so fragmentary, its relationships with other eusuchians remain unknown.[4] Jouve et al. (2020) assigned Dolichochampsa to Gavialoidea, making it the oldest known South American member of this clade.[5]