Sahitisuchus | |
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Holotype skull in dorsal and ventral view | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Clade: | †Notosuchia |
Clade: | †Sebecosuchia |
Clade: | †Sebecia |
Family: | †Sebecidae |
Genus: | †Sahitisuchus Kellner et al. 2014 |
Type species | |
†Sahitisuchus fluminensis Kellner et al. 2014
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Sahitisuchus is an extinct genus of sebecid mesoeucrocodylian known from Rio de Janeiro State of southeastern Brazil.[1] It contains a single species, Sahitisuchus fluminensis. It is a terrestrial sebecid, however also adopted to a semi-aquatic lifestyle to some degree, most probably coexisting with the semi-aquatic alligatorid Eocaiman itaboraiensis.[2]