Borealosuchus

Taxobox
name = "Borealosuchus"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous to Eocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Crocodylia
subordo =
familia =
genus = "Borealosuchus"
genus_authority = Brochu, 1997
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
*"B. sternbergi" (Gilmore, 1910 [originally "Leidyosuchus sternbergi"] ) (type)
*"B. actutidentatus" (Sternberg, 1932 [originally "Leidyosuchus acutidentatus"] )
*"B. formidabilis" (Erickson, 1976 [originally "Leidyosuchus formidabilis"] )
*"B. griffithi" Wu, Brinkman, and Fox, 2001
*"B. wilsoni" (Mook, 1959 [originally "Leidyosuchus wilsoni"] )

"Borealosuchus" is an extinct genus of crocodilian that lived from the Late Cretaceous to the Eocene in North America. It was named by Chris Brochu in 1997 for several species that had been assigned to "Leidyosuchus". The species assigned to it are:"B. sternbergi", the type species, from the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming; "B. acutidentatus", from the Paleocene of Saskatchewan; "B. formidabilis", from the Paleocene of North Dakota and Wyoming;cite journal |last=Brochu |first=C.A. |year=1997 |title=A review of "Leidyosuchus" (Crocodyliformes, Eusuchia) from the Cretaceous through Eocene of North America |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=679–697] "B. griffithi", from the Paleocene of Alberta;cite journal |last=Wu |first=X-C. |coauthors=Brinkman, D.B.; and Fox, R.C. |year=2001 |title=A new crocodylian (Archosauria) from the basal Paleocene of the Red Deer River Valley, southern Alberta |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=38 |issue=12 |pages=1689–1704 |doi=10.1139/cjes-38-12-1689] and "B. wilsoni", from the Eocene of Wyoming. "B. formidabilis" is particularly well-known, represented by the remains of many individuals from the Wannagan Creek site in North Dakota.cite book |last=Erickson |first=Bruce R. |authorlink=Bruce Erickson (paleontologist) |year=1976 |title=Osteology of the Early Eusuchian Crocodile "Leidyosuchus formidabilis", sp. nov |series=The Science Museum of Minnesota St. Paul, Minnesota Monograph 2, Paleontology |publisher=The Science Museum of Minnesota |location=St. Paul |pages=1-61]

References

External links

* [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=110899 "Borealosuchus"] in the Paleobiology Database