Paratomistoma
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Paratomistoma
| Paratomistoma Temporal range: Middle Eocene |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Subfamily: | Tomistominae |
| Genus: | Paratomistoma Brochu & Gingerich, 2000 |
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Paratomistoma (meaning "next to or near Tomistoma") is an extinct genus of tomistomine crocodilian. It is based on CGM 42188, a partial posterior skull and lower jaw discovered at Wadi Hitan, Egypt, in Middle Eocene-age rocks of the Gehannam Formation. The skull is unfused but considered morphologically mature. Paratomistoma was named in 2000 by Christopher Brochu and Philip Gingerich; the type species is P. courti in honor of Nicholas Court, who found CGM 42188. They performed a phylogenetic analysis and found Paratomistoma to be a derived tomistomine. It may have been a marine or coastal crocodilian.[1]
References
- ^ Brochu, Christopher A.; and Gingerich, Philip D. (2000). "New tomistomine crocodylian from the Middle Eocene (Bartonian) of Wadi Hitan, Fayum Province, Egypt" (pdf). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology 30 (10): 251–268. http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/48660/2/ID527.pdf.
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