| Brasileosaurus | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Clade: | †Notosuchia |
| Family: | †Notosuchidae |
| Genus: | †Brasileosaurus Huene, 1931 |
| Species: | †B. pachecoi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Brasileosaurus pachecoi Huene, 1931 | |
Brasileosaurus (meaning "Brazil lizard") is a genus ofnotosuchidnotosuchian from the Late CretaceousAdamantina Formation ofBrazil. Thetype species isB. pachecoi, discovered by the Brazilian Eng. Joviano Pacheco and described by the prolific GermanpaleontologistFriedrich von Huene in 1931.
Brasileosaurus is not to be confused with the mesosaurBrazilosaurus.
Although originally classified as acoelurosaur in the original description, it was later recognized as being acrocodylomorph, possibly synonymous withUruguaysuchus.[1][2] In his description ofSebecus,George Gaylord Simpson assignedBrasileosaurus to Notosuchidae, noting similarities with members of Mesoeucrocodylia.[3]
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