Planocrania
Sign in to savePlanocrania is an extinct genus of eusuchian crocodyliforms from what is now China. Two species are currently known to belong to the genus.
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Planocrania is an extinct genus of eusuchian crocodyliforms from what is now China. Two species are currently known to belong to the genus.
==History== left|thumb|Life reconstruction The type species, Planocrania datangensis, was named in 1976 from material found from Nanxiong in Guangdong Province, China, and the new genus Planocrania was placed in a newly erected family Planocraniidae. A second species, Planocrania hengdongensis, is known from Hengdong County in Hunan Province and was described in 1984.
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