Mambawakale
Name:
Mambawakale
(crocodile ancient).
Phonetic: Mam-bah-wah-kah-le.
Named By: Richard J. Butler, Vincent Fernandez,
Sterling J. Nesbitt, Jo�o Vasco Leite & David J.
Gower - 2022.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Pseudosuchia, Paracrocodylomorpha.
Species: M. ruhuhu (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Skull estimated at 75 centimetres long.
Known locations: Tanzania - Manda Formation.
Time period: Mid-Late Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and some post
cranial skeletal remains.
Mambawakale
is a genus of paracrocodylomorph that lived during the Triassic.
Further reading
- A new pseudosuchian archosaur, Mambawakale ruhuhu
gen. et sp.
nov., from the Middle Triassic Manda Beds of Tanzania. - The
Royal Society. 9 (2). - Richard J. Butler, Vincent
Fernandez, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Jo�o Vasco Leite &
David J. Gower - 2022.
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