ARGENTINA

TUCUMAN PROVINCE

22 KM NORTH OF THE CITY OF SAN MIGUEL DE DUCUMAN

FROM THE MARGIN OF A SMALL STREAM TRIBUTARY OF THE RIO LORO

3 KM EAST OF EL CADILLAL LAKE

SOUTHERN END OF THE MEDINA RANGE

RIO LORO FORMATION

MIDDLE-LATE PALAEOCENE EPOCH

LOWER PALEOGENE PERIOD

LOWER TERTIARY SUBERA

CENOZOIC ERA

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

PARVORDER: METASUCHIA BENTON & CLARK, 1988

INFRAORDER: SEBECOSUCHIA SIMPSON, 1937 (emend. GASPARINI, 1971)

Family: SEBECIDAE Simpson, 1937

*Lorosuchus nodosus

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