Microchampsa

Microchampsa
Temporal range: Early Jurassic
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Microchampsa

Young, 1951
Species
  • M. scutata Young, 1951 (type)

Microchampsa is an extinct genus of protosuchian crocodyliform that existed during the Early Jurassic. Fossils have been found from stratum 6 of the Dahuangtian locality, an outcrop of the Lower Red Beds of the Lufeng Formation in Yunnan, China.[1]

  1. ^ Lucas, S. G. (2001). Chinese fossil vertebrates. Columbia University Press, 375 pp.