| Brasilosuchus | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Superfamily: | Gavialoidea |
| Family: | Gavialidae |
| Genus: | †Brasilosuchus Souza-Filho & Bocquentin-Villanueva, 1989 |
| Species: | †B. mendesi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Brasilosuchus mendesi Souza-Filho & Bocquentin-Villanueva, 1989 | |
Brasilosuchus is anextinctmonospecificgenus ofcrocodilian that lived during theMiocene ofBrazil. It contains one species,Brasilosuchus mendesi, named by Jonas Souza-Filho and Jean Bocquentin-Villanueva in 1989. They subsequently re-identified it as a species ofCharactosuchus in a 1993 conference abstract, but this conclusion has not been accepted since it was not published. Along withCharactosuchus, it is possibly a member ofTomistominae, but they have not been included in aphylogenetic analysis. If this interpretation is correct, then they would have originated from North American ancestors in the first dispersal of the group into the Americas.[1]
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