Purussaurus
Sign in to savePurussaurus is a genus of extinct giant caimans that lived in the Americas during the Miocene epoch, from the Friasian to the Huayquerian in the SALMA classification. It is known from skull material found in the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon, Argentina, Colombian Villavieja Formation, Panamanian Culebra Formation, Urumaco, and Socorro Formations of northern Venezuela.
Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 5.16
- Image
- Purussaurus skull.PNG
- Length
- 10.3
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- taxon name
- Purussaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Purussaurus
- start time
- 20400000-0
- end time
- 5300000-00
- location of discovery
- Urumaco Formation
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Purussaurus is a genus of extinct giant caimans that lived in the Americas during the Miocene epoch, from the Friasian to the Huayquerian in the SALMA classification. It is known from skull material found in the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon, Argentina, Colombian Villavieja Formation, Panamanian Culebra Formation, Urumaco, and Socorro Formations of northern Venezuela.
== Description ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Purussaurus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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