PATAGONIA
NEUQUEN PROVINCE
27 KM NORTHWEST OF CHOS MALAL VILLAGE
CHACAY MELEHUE SECTION
UPPER LOS MOLLES FORMATION
UPPER BATHONIAN STAGE
MIDDLE DOGGER EPOCH
MIDDLE JURASSIC
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904
SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985
LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946
SUPERCOHORT: CRUROTARSI SERENO & ARCUCCI, 1990
COHORT: CROCODYLOTARSI BENTON & CLARK, 1988
MAGNORDER: SUCHIA KREBS, 1974
SUPERORDER: CROCODYLOMORPHA WALKER, 1968
GRANDORDER: CROCODILIFORMES HAY, 1930
MICRORDER: MESOEUROCROCODYLIA WHETSTONE & WHYBROW, 1983
ORDER: MESOSUCHIA EMEND HUXLEY, 1875
SUBORDER: THALATTOSUCHIA EMEND FRAAS, 1901
Family: METRIORHYNCHIDAE Fitzinger, 1843
Subfamily: GEOSAURINAE Lydekker, 1889
Suchodus brachyrhynchus = Metriorhynchus aff. M. brachyrhynchus
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