Eotomistoma is a dubious genus of crocodyliform from the Lower Cretaceous of China.
| Eotomistoma Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, ~
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Genus: | †Eotomistoma Young, 1964 |
| Type species | |
| †Eotomistoma multidentata Young, 1964
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History
editEotomistoma was named by Chung-Chien Young in 1964 based on two pieces of the snout.[1] Young assigned it to the Tomistominae. However, other researchers, such as Eric Buffetaut, were skeptical of Young's interpretation, and in 1981 Denise Sigogneau-Russell re-studied it and determined the specimen was a chimera of a crocodylian and a choristodere.[2] Sigogneau-Russell named the choristodere fossil Ikechosaurus. The remaining snout fragment, still the holotype of Eotomistoma, is now considered to be an indeterminate crocodyliform.[3]
Paleoecology
editEotomistoma is known from the Lower Cretaceous Luohandong Formation. It was a contemporary of the choristodere Ikechosaurus and the crocodyliforms Theriosuchus and Shantungosuchus.[3]
References
edit- ^ Young, C.-C. (1964). "New fossil crocodiles from China" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica (in Chinese (China) and English). 8 (2): 189–208.
- ^ Sigogneau-Russell, D. (1981). "Présence d'un nouveau Champsosauridé dans le Crétacé supérieur de Chine". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris. 292: 1–4.
- ^ a b Wu, X.-C.; Sues, H.-D.; Brinkman, D. B. (1996). "An atoposaurid neosuchian (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes) from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia (People's Republic of China)". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 33 (4): 599–605. Bibcode:1996CaJES..33..599W. doi:10.1139/e96-044.