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Product code: F16727
Available: Yes
Provenience: New Mexico (USA - San Juan Formation)
Geological Era: Eocene
Age: 50 million of years
Measure: cm 3.2 x 2
fossil armor scute of ancient crocodyle, with great surface details, cm 3.2 x 2.
Crocodylus affinis is an extinct species of crocodyloid from the Eocene of Wyoming. Fossils were first described from the Bridger Formation by American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh in 1871. Marsh described the species, along with every other species of crocodyloid in the Bridger Formation, under the genus Crocodylus. Recent phylogenetic studies of crocodyloids show that C. affinis is not a species of Crocodylus, but a genus has not yet been erected to include the species. Other Bridger species such as Crocodylus clavis and Brachyuranochampsa zangerli have been synonymized with C. affinis.
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