Mariliasuchus

Mariliasuchus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
~84.9–66.0 Ma
Mariliasuchus amarali
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Crocodyliformes
Clade: †Notosuchia
Family: †Notosuchidae
Genus: †Mariliasuchus
Carvalho and Bertini, 1999
Species
  • †M. amarali Carvalho and Bertini, 1999 (type)
  • †M. robustus Nobre et al., 2007
Reconstruction of the head of Mariliasuchus amarali

Mariliasuchus ("Marilia crocodile") is an extinct genus of Late Cretaceous notosuchian crocodyliforms found near Marilia, Brazil. The first bone remains were found and collected in 1995 by Brazilian paleontologist William Nava, in red rocks from the fossiliferous Adamantina Formation.[1] Four years later, it was described as Mariliasuchus amarali, by Brazilian paleontologists Ismar de Souza Carvalho and Reinaldo J. Bertini.

Its type species M. amarali, in honour of Sérgio Estanislaw do Amaral, Brazilian naturalist. A second species, M. robustus, was named in 2007.[2]

  1. ^ Mariliasuchus at Fossilworks.org
  2. ^ Pedro Henrique Nobre; Ismar de Souza Carvalho; Felipe Mesquita de Vasconcellos & Willian Roberto Nava (2007). "Mariliasuchus robustus, a new Crocodylomorpha (Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Bauru Basin, Brazil". Anuário do Instituto de Geociências. 30 (1): 38–49. doi:10.11137/2007_1_38-49. ISSN 0101-9759.pdf Archived 2017-12-02 at the Wayback Machine