Hemiprotosuchus

Hemiprotosuchus
Temporal range: Late Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Crocodylomorpha
Family: Protosuchidae
Genus: Hemiprotosuchus
Bonaparte, 1969
Species
  • H. leali Bonaparte, 1969 (type)

Hemiprotosuchus is an extinct genus of protosuchid from the Norian stage of the Los Colorados Formation of South America. It was named by prolific Argentinian paleontologist José Bonaparte in 1969. The type species is H. leali.[1]

References

  1. Bonaparte, J.F. (1969). "Dos nuevas 'faunas' de reptiles triasicos de Argentina". Gondwana Stratigraphy (IUGS Symposium, Buenos Aires) 2:283-306.
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