Notochampsa

Notochampsa
Temporal range: Pliensbachian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Subclass:
Diapsida
Infraclass:
Archosauromorpha
Superorder:
Crocodylomorpha
Suborder:
Notochampsoidea
Family:
Notochampsidae
Genus:
Notochampsa

Species
  • N. istedana Broom, 1904 (type)

Notochampsa is an extinct genus of protosuchian crocodyliform. Fossils have been found from the lower Clarens Formation of the Karoo Supergroup in South Africa, dating back to the Pliensbachian stage of the Early Jurassic. Notochampsa comes from a period of relative fossil scarcity, and is the youngest known occurrence of a crocodylomorph (and vertebrate body fossil) from the Karoo Basin of South Africa.

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