From Salgado, Canudo, Garrido, Ruiz-Omeñaca, García, Fuente, Barco and Bollati, 2009. Upper Cretaceous vertebrates from El Anfiteatro area, Río Negro, Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research, 30 (3): 767-784.
Salgado et al. describe (briefly) the scrappy remains of a new crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. The authors point to the wide and low anterior dentary shape, the sigmoidal curvature of its ventral margin, and the presence of multiple rows of dorsal osteoderms (convergent with eusuchians) to support its phylogenetic affinities with the peirosaurids (like the recently described Montealtosuchus and Hamadasuchus).
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