Planocrania

Planocrania
Temporal range: Paleocene, 61.6–56 Ma[1]
Holotype skull (IVPP V5016) of P. datangensis, Paleozoological Museum of China
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Crocodyliformes
Clade: Eusuchia
Family: †Planocraniidae
Genus: †Planocrania
Li, 1976
Species
  • †P. datangensis Li, 1976 (type)
  • †P. hengdongensis Li, 1984

Planocrania is an extinct genus of eusuchian crocodyliforms from what is now China.[2] Two species are currently known to belong to the genus.

  1. ^ Rio, Jonathan P.; Mannion, Philip D. (6 September 2021). "Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem". PeerJ. 9: e12094. doi:10.7717/peerj.12094. PMC 8428266. PMID 34567843.
  2. ^ Michael S. Y. Lee; Adam M. Yates (27 June 2018). "Tip-dating and homoplasy: reconciling the shallow molecular divergences of modern gharials with their long fossil". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 285 (1881). doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.1071. PMC 6030529. PMID 30051855.