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.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 136 inbound references to Planocrania, and connects out to Boverisuchus, Crocodile and Crocodilia.
Vinony files it under Fossil taxa described in 1976, Neosuchia and Paleocene crocodylomorphs.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Planocraniidae
- Image
- Planocrania.png
Show 3 more facts
- taxon name
- Planocrania
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Planocrania
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- History
- Phylogeny
- References
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Planocrania” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.