''Coronelsuchus'' is an extinct genus of
sphagesaurian crocodylomorph
Crocodylomorpha is a group of pseudosuchian archosaurs that includes the crocodilians and their extinct relatives. They were the only members of Pseudosuchia to survive the end-Triassic extinction.
During Mesozoic and early Cenozoic times, cro ...
known from the
Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous Series. The Cretaceous is named after ''creta'', the ...
Araçatuba Formation of
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
. It contains a single species, ''Coronelsuchus civali''.
References
Notosuchians
Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera
Terrestrial crocodylomorphs
Late Cretaceous crocodylomorphs of South America
Cretaceous Brazil
Fossils of Brazil
Fossil taxa described in 2021
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