| Coelosuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Family: | †Goniopholididae |
| Genus: | †Coelosuchus Williston, 1906 |
| Type species | |
| †Coelosuchus reedii Williston, 1906
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Coelosuchus is an extinct genus of goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian. Fossils have been found from the Graneros Shale of the Benton Group in Wyoming, and are of Cenomanian age. It was slightly over 1 meter in length.
References
- ^ Carroll, R.L. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. WH Freeman and Company, New York ISBN 0-7167-1822-7
- ^ Williston, S. W. (1906). American Amphicoelian Crocodiles. Journal of Geology 14:1-17.
