Massaliasuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Illustration of the fossilized remains from the Fuvelian Lignites of France, 1869 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Clade: | Eusuchia |
Clade: | †Allodaposuchidae |
Genus: | †Massaliasuchus Martin & Buffetaut, 2008 |
Species: | †M. affuvelensis
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Binomial name | |
†Massaliasuchus affuvelensis (Matheron, 1869)
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Massaliasuchus is an extinct monospecific genus of allodaposuchid eusuchian crocodyliform that is known from fossils found in Santonian–Campanian-age Upper Cretaceous rocks of southeastern France.[1]