Balanerodus
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Order: | Crocodylia |
| Family: | Alligatoridae |
| Genus: | Balanerodus Langston, 1965 |
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Balanerodus is an extinct genus of alligatorid crocodylian.[1] Fossils have been found from the Fitzcarrald Arch in the Peruvian Amazon and the La Victoria Formation of the Honda Group in Colombia and date back to the Friasian and Laventan regional South American land mammal ages of the Middle Miocene.[2][3]
References
- ↑ Carroll, R.L. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. WH Freeman and Company, New York ISBN 0-7167-1822-7
- ↑ Balanerodus at Fossilworks.org
- ↑ Salas-Gismondi, R.; et al. (2007), "Middle Miocene Crocodiles From the Fitzcarrald Arch, Amazonian Peru" (PDF), in Díaz-Martínez, E.; Rábano, I., 4th European Meeting on the Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of Latin America, Madrid: Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, pp. 355–360, ISBN 978-84-7840-707-1
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