Charactosuchus information

Charactosuchus; Temporal range: ?Eocene & Mid-Late Miocene or ?Early Pliocene; ~48.6–3.6 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauromorpha
Clade:	Archosauriformes
Order:	Crocodilia
Family:	Crocodylidae
Genus:	†Charactosuchus; Langston, 1965
Species
	C. fieldsi Langston, 1965 (type); ?C. kugleri Berg, 1969; ?C. mendesi Souza Filho and Bocquentin, 1989; C. sansoai Souza Filho, 1991;
Synonyms
	?Brasilosuchus Souza Filho and Bocquentin, 1989;

Charactosuchus is an extinct genus of crocodilian. It was assigned to the family Crocodylidae in 1988.^[1] Specimens have been found in Colombia, Brazil, Jamaica, and possibly Florida and South Carolina. It was gharial-like in appearance with its long narrow snout but bore no relation to them, being more closely related to modern crocodiles than to gharials.^[2]

^ Carroll, R. L.(1988). Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. WH Freeman and Company, New York ISBN 0-7167-1822-7
^ Langston, W. (1965). "Fossil crocodilians from Colombia and the Cenozoic history of the Crocodilia in South America". University of California Publications in Geological Sciences. 52: 1–169.

[1] Carroll, R. L.(1988). Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. WH Freeman and Company, New York ISBN 0-7167-1822-7

[2] Langston, W. (1965). "Fossil crocodilians from Colombia and the Cenozoic history of the Crocodilia in South America". University of California Publications in Geological Sciences. 52: 1–169.

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