''Eptalofosuchus'' is a genus of
Notosuchian
Notosuchia is a suborder of primarily Gondwanan mesoeucrocodylian crocodylomorphs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous. Some phylogenies recover Sebecosuchia as a clade within Notosuchia, others as a sister group (see below); if Sebecosu ...
from the
Uberaba Formation
The Uberaba Formation is a Campanian geologic formation belonging to the Bauru Group of the Bauru Sub-basin, Paraná Basin located in Minas Gerais state of southeastern Brazil. The Uberaba Formation, intercalating the List of fossiliferous stratig ...
in
Brazil
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, and contains one species, ''E. viridi''.
Description
The genus was described on the basis of a fragmentary mandible, which was found in the Uberaba Formation in the
Bauru Group
The Bauru Group is a geological group of the Bauru Sub-basin, Paraná Basin in Minas Gerais, São Paulo, General Salgado, Itapecuru-Mirim, Mato Grosso, Brazil whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils t ...
, of southeastern Brazil, which was said to be from an advanced Notosuchian.
References
{{Notosuchia, N.
Notosuchians
Prehistoric reptile genera
Fossil taxa described in 2021