Zulmasuchus Explained

Zulmasuchus (meaning "Zulma Gasparini's crocodile") is an extinct genus of sebecid sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian. Its fossils have been found in Early Paleocene-age rocks (Danian stage) of the Santa Lucía Formation in Bolivia.[1] Zulmasuchus was named in 2007 by Alfredo Paolillo and Omar Linares for fossils originally described by Buffetaut and Marshall in 1991 as Sebecus querejazus. Thus, the type species is Sebecus querezajus and the combinatio nova is Zulmasuchus querejazus.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Buffetaut, E. . Marshall, L.G. . 1991 . A new crocodilian, Sebecus querejazus, nov. sp. (Mesosuchia, Sebecidae) from the Santa Lucía Formation (Early Paleocene) at Vila Vila, Southern Bolivia . Fosiles y Facies de Bolivia - Vol I Vertebrados . Suarez-Soruco, R. . Revista Técnica de YPFB . Santa Cruz . 545–557.
  2. Paolillo. Alfredo. Linares, Omar J. . 2007. Nuevos cocodrilos Sebecosuchia del Cenozoico Suramericano (Mesosuchia: Crocodylia) . Paleobiologia Neotropical . 3 . 1–25 . 2009-02-15 . PDF . es.

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