Wannchampsus
Name:
Wannchampsus
(Wann Langston Jr.'s crocodile).
Phonetic: Wann-champ-sus.
Named By: T. L. Adams - 2014.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Crocodylomorpha, Paralligatoridae.
Species: W. kirpachi (type).
Diet: Carnivore/Piscivore.
Size: Skulls up to 6.4 centimetres long.
Known locations: USA, Texas - Antlers
Formation, Twin Mountains Formation.
Time period: Aptian to Albian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skulls and partial
post cranial skeletal remains.
Wannchampsus is a genus of very small crocodile that lived in North America in the latter periods of the early Cretaceous.
Further reading
- Small crocodyliform from the Lower Cretaceous (late Aptian) of
central Texas and its systematic relationship to the evolution of
Eusuchia. - Journal of Paleontology 88(5):1031-1049. -
T. L. Adams - 2014.
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