Fortignathus
| Fortignathus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | †Notosuchia |
| Clade: | †Sebecosuchia |
| Clade: | †Sebecia |
| Family: | †Itasuchidae |
| Genus: | †Fortignathus Young et al., 2016 |
| Species: | †F. felixi
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| †Fortignathus felixi (de Lapparent de Broin, 2002)
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Fortignathus is an extinct genus of dyrosaurid[1] or itasuchid[2] crocodylomorph known from the Late Cretaceous Echkar Formation in Niger. It contains a single species, Fortignathus felixi, which was originally named as a species of Elosuchus in 2002.[1][3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Young, Mark T.; Hastings, Alexander K.; Allain, Ronan; Smith, Thomas J. (July 2016). "Revision of the enigmatic crocodyliform Elosuchus felixi de Lapparent de Broin, 2002 from the Lower-Upper Cretaceous boundary of Niger: potential evidence for an early origin of the clade Dyrosauridae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi:10.1111/zoj.12452. ISSN 0024-4082.
- ^ Wilberg, Eric; Hill, Robert V.; Pascucci, Thomas R.; Roberts, Eric M.; Bouaré, Mamadou L.; O'Leary, Maureen A. "A new itasuchid (Crocodyliformes, Notosuchia) from the Early Cretaceous of Mali and the ancient Paleo-Tegama river system of Gondwana". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 0 (0) e2505473. doi:10.1080/02724634.2025.2505473. ISSN 0272-4634.
- ^ de Broin, F. de L., (2002), Elosuchus, a new genus of crocodile from the Lower Cretaceous of the North of Africa: C. R. Palevol, v. 1, p. 275-285.
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