Miadanasuchus

Miadanasuchus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Subclass:
Diapsida
Infraclass:
Archosauromorpha
(unranked):
Crurotarsi
Superorder:
Crocodylomorpha
(unranked):
Mesoeucrocodylia
Family:
Peirosauridae
Genus:
Miadanasuchus

Simons & Buckley, 2009
Species

M. oblita Buffetaut & Taquet, 1979(originally Trematochampsa oblita) (type)

Miadanasuchus is an extinct genus of peirosaurid which existed in the Maevarano Formation of Madagascar during the late Cretaceous period (Campanian age). It was first named by Erin L. Rasmusson Simons and Gregory A. Buckley in 2009 and the type species is Trematochampsa oblita. Its teeth were irregularly spaced and variable in height.

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