Crocodilaemus is an extinct genus of pholidosaurid mesoeucrocodylian.[1] Fossils have been found from the Cerin Lagerstätte of eastern France and are of late Kimmeridgian age. The depositional environment in Cerin at the time is thought to have been the bottom of a lagoon that was enclosed by an emergent reef complex, evidence of the shallow tropical sea that covered much of western Europe during the Jurassic period.[2]

Crocodilaemus
Temporal range: Late Jurassic
Fossil C. robustus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Crocodyliformes
Clade: Neosuchia
Suborder: Tethysuchia
Family: Pholidosauridae
Genus: Crocodilaemus
Jourdan, 1857
Type species
C. robustus
Jourdan, 1857
Crocodilaemus robustus

References

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  1. ^ Carroll, R.L. (1988). Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. WH Freeman and Company, New York ISBN 0-7167-1822-7
  2. ^ Gaillard, C.; Goy, J.; Bernier, P.; Bourseau, J. P.; Gall, J. C.; Barale, G.; Buffetaut, E.; Wenz, S. (2006). "New jellyfish taxa from the Upper Jurassic lithographic limestones of Cerin (France): taphonomy and ecology". Palaeontology. 49 (6): 1287–1302. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00592.x.