Pepesuchus

Pepesuchus
Temporal range: Campanian-Maastrichtian
~84.9–66.0 Ma
Left hemimandible of P. deisae, specimen MCT 1788-R
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Crocodyliformes
Clade: Notosuchia
Clade: Sebecosuchia
Clade: Sebecia
Family: Peirosauridae
Genus: Pepesuchus
Campos et al., 2011
Species:
P. deiseae
Binomial name
Pepesuchus deiseae
Campos et al., 2011

Pepesuchus is an extinct genus of carnivorous metasuchian from the Late Cretaceous period. It is a peirosaurid which lived during the Campanian and Maastrichtian stages of the Late Cretaceous in what is now state of São Paulo, Brazil.[1] It was a semiaquatic crocodylomorph.[2]

  1. ^ "Pepesuchus". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  2. ^ Jorge Cubo; Mariana V. A. Sena; Paul Aubier; Guillaume Houee; Penelope Claisse; Mathieu G. Faure-Brac; Ronan Allain; Rafael C. L. P. Andrade; Juliana M. Sayão; Gustavo R. Oliveira (2020). "Were Notosuchia (Pseudosuchia: Crocodylomorpha) warm-blooded? A palaeohistological analysis suggests ectothermy" (PDF). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 131 (1): 154–162. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blaa081.