Pepesuchus, SP.

Geroto, Caio Fabricio Cezar & Bertini, Reinaldo J., 2019, New material of Pepesuchus (Crocodyliformes; Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Bauru Group: implications about its phylogeny and the age of the Adamantina Formation, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185, pp. 312-334 : 315

PEPESUCHUS SP.

Material

MCT 1723-R, curated in the Museu de Ciências da Terra, DNPM, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Location and horizon

A d a m a n t i n a Fo r m a t i o n, B a u r u G r o u p, U p p e r Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian). Outcrop was not identified by collector. Dark red sandstones, with thin to medium grains.

Diagnosis (modified from Campos et al., 2011) Postorbital with a comparatively acute anteromedial process, short dorsoventral extension of the lacrimal, V-shaped suture between the palatine and maxilla, presence of two alveolar couplets (sixth to seventh and eighth to ninth pairs) in the mandible. The dorsal edge of the rostrum is concave and adjacent to the anterior verge of the orbits; the lacrimal inferior process contacts the jugal, and the splenial is strongly concave in cross-section.