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Extinct genus of reptiles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maomingosuchus is an extinct genus of gavialoid crocodylian from Late Eocene of Southeast Asia. It was discovered in Priabonian-aged deposits of China and possibly also Thailand.[2] The type species, originally Tomistoma petrolica, was named in 1958[3] and was redescribed as Maomingosuchus in 2017.[4] A second species, Maomingosuchus acutirostris, was described in 2022 from middle-upper Eocence deposits (late Bartonian–Priabonian age, 39–35 Ma) of the Na Duong Basin in northern Vietnam.[5] It is proposed to be a basal member of Gavialoidea,[1] or alternatively within the family Tomistominae.[5] It was a relatively small gavialoid with an estimated total length of 3–3.5 metres (9.8–11.5 ft).[6][4]
| Maomingosuchus Temporal range: Late Eocene: Priabonian, | |
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| Two fossils, Zhejiang Natural History Museum | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Clade: | Archosauriformes |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Clade: | Longirostres |
| Superfamily: | Gavialoidea |
| Genus: | †Maomingosuchus Shan et al., 2017 |
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