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Langstonia, the Glossary

Langstonia (meaning " of Langston", in honor of paleontologist Wann Langston, Jr.) is an extinct genus of notosuchian crocodylomorph of the family Sebecidae.^[1]

90 relations: Adianthidae, Andes, Apex predator, Argentina, Astrapotheria, Ayllusuchus, Barinasuchus, Baurusuchidae, Baurusuchus, Bergisuchus, Bolivia, Bretesuchus, Cenozoic, Charactosuchus, Chimaerasuchus, Cladogram, Colombia, Colombian Geological Survey, Cretaceous, Crocodile, Crocodilia, Crocodylomorpha, Cynodontosuchus, Dental alveolus, Diastema, Dukecynus, Dyrosauridae, Eocene, Extinction, Fossil, Genus, Geological formation, Gondwana, Granastrapotherium, Gryposuchus, Holotype, Honda, Huilatherium, Iberosuchus, Jugal bone, Komodo dragon, Lapsus, Laventan, Leontiniidae, Lorosuchus, Lycopsis, Mandible, Maxilla, Megafauna, Mekosuchinae, ... Expand index (40 more) »
Fossil taxa described in 1965
Miocene crocodylomorphs
Miocene reptiles of South America
Sebecids

Adianthidae

Adianthidae is an extinct family of litopterns that existed from the Middle Eocene (Mustersan) to the Early Miocene (Santacrucian).

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Andes

The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.

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Apex predator

An apex predator, also known as a top predator or superpredator, is a predator at the top of a food chain, without natural predators of its own.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Astrapotheria

Astrapotheria is an extinct order of South American and Antarctic hoofed mammals that existed from the late Paleocene to the Middle Miocene,.

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Ayllusuchus

Ayllusuchus is an extinct genus of sebecid mesoeucrocodylian. Langstonia and Ayllusuchus are prehistoric pseudosuchian genera and sebecids.

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Barinasuchus (meaning "Barinas crocodile," in reference to where the type material was found) is an extinct genus of sebecid mesoeucrocodylian. Langstonia and Barinasuchus are Laventan, Miocene crocodylomorphs, Miocene reptiles of South America, prehistoric pseudosuchian genera and sebecids.

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Baurusuchidae

Baurusuchidae is a Gondwanan family of mesoeucrocodylians that lived during the Late Cretaceous.

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Baurusuchus

Baurusuchus is an extinct genus of baurusuchid mesoeucrocodylian, which lived in Brazil from 90 to 83.5 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous period. Langstonia and Baurusuchus are prehistoric pseudosuchian genera.

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Bergisuchus

Bergisuchus is an extinct genus of small sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian known primarily from the Eocene Messel Pit in Germany. Langstonia and Bergisuchus are prehistoric pseudosuchian genera.

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Bolivia

Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

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Bretesuchus

Bretesuchus is an extinct genus of sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian within the family Sebecidae known from northwestern Argentina. Langstonia and Bretesuchus are prehistoric pseudosuchian genera and sebecids.

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Cenozoic

The Cenozoic is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million years of Earth's history.

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Charactosuchus

Charactosuchus is an extinct genus of crocodilian. Langstonia and Charactosuchus are fossil taxa described in 1965, fossils of Colombia, Laventan, Miocene crocodylomorphs, Miocene reptiles of South America, Neogene Colombia and prehistoric pseudosuchian genera.

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Chimaerasuchus

Chimaerasuchus ("chimera crocodile") is an extinct genus of Chinese crocodyliform from the Early Cretaceous Wulong Formation. Langstonia and Chimaerasuchus are prehistoric pseudosuchian genera.

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Cladogram

A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Colombian Geological Survey

The Colombian Geological Survey (CGS) (Servicio Geológico Colombiano; formerly known as INGEOMINAS) is a scientific agency of the Colombian government in charge of contributing to the socioeconomic development of the nation through research in basic and applied geosciences of the subsoil, the potential of its resources, evaluating and monitoring threats of geological origin, managing the geoscientific knowledge of the nation, and studying the nuclear and radioactive elements in Colombia.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Crocodile

Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.

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Crocodilia

Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both) is an order of semiaquatic, predatory reptiles known as crocodilians.

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Crocodylomorpha

Crocodylomorpha is a group of pseudosuchian archosaurs that includes the crocodilians and their extinct relatives.

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Cynodontosuchus

Cynodontosuchus is an extinct genus of baurusuchid mesoeucrocodylian. Langstonia and Cynodontosuchus are prehistoric pseudosuchian genera.

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Dental alveolus

Dental alveoli (singular alveolus) are sockets in the jaws in which the roots of teeth are held in the alveolar process with the periodontal ligament.

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Diastema

A diastema (diastemata, from Greek διάστημα, 'space') is a space or gap between two teeth.

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Dukecynus

Dukecynus is an extinct genus of meat-eating metatherian belonging to the order Sparassodonta, which lived in South America during the Middle Miocene (Laventan), between about 13.8 and 11.8 million years ago. Langstonia and Dukecynus are fossils of Colombia, Laventan and Neogene Colombia.

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Dyrosauridae

Dyrosauridae is a family of extinct neosuchian crocodyliforms that lived from the Campanian to the Eocene.

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Eocene

The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).

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Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Geological formation

A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).

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Gondwana

Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.

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Granastrapotherium

Granastrapotherium is an extinct genus of ungulate mammals, described from remains found in rocks of the Honda Group in the Tatacoa Desert, in the Colombian departments of Huila and Tolima, at the Miocene fossil site La Venta. Langstonia and Granastrapotherium are fossils of Colombia, Laventan and Neogene Colombia.

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Gryposuchus

Gryposuchus is an extinct genus of gavialid crocodilian. Langstonia and Gryposuchus are fossils of Colombia, Laventan, Miocene crocodylomorphs, Miocene reptiles of South America, Neogene Colombia and prehistoric pseudosuchian genera.

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Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.

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Honda

is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and battery-powered equipment, founded in October 1946 by Soichiro Honda and headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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Huilatherium

Huilatherium is an extinct genus of leontiniid, a group of hoofed mammals belonging to the order Notoungulata, that comprises other South American ungulate families that evolved in parallel with some mammals of the Northern hemisphere. Langstonia and Huilatherium are fossils of Colombia, Laventan and Neogene Colombia.

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Iberosuchus

Iberosuchus (meaning "Iberian crocodile") is a genus of extinct sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian found in Western Europe from the Eocene. Langstonia and Iberosuchus are prehistoric pseudosuchian genera.

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Jugal bone

The jugal is a skull bone found in most reptiles, amphibians and birds.

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Komodo dragon

The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), also known as the Komodo monitor, is a large reptile of the monitor lizard family Varanidae that is endemic to the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, and Gili Motang.

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Lapsus

In philology, a lapsus (Latin for "lapse, slip, error") is an involuntary mistake made while writing or speaking.

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Laventan

The Laventan (Laventense) age is a period of geologic time (13.8 to 11.8 Ma) within the Middle Miocene epoch of the Neogene, used more specifically within the SALMA classification in South America. Langstonia and Laventan are Neogene Colombia.

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Leontiniidae

Leontiniidae is an extinct family comprising eighteen genera of notoungulate mammals known from the Middle Eocene (Mustersan) to Late Miocene (Huayquerian) of South America.

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Lorosuchus

Lorosuchus is an extinct genus of sebecid mesoeucrocodylian known from the Río Loro Formation in Tucumán Province of northwestern Argentina. Langstonia and Lorosuchus are prehistoric pseudosuchian genera and sebecids.

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Lycopsis

Lycopsis is an extinct genus of South American metatherian that lived during the Miocene in Argentina and Colombia. Langstonia and Lycopsis are fossils of Colombia, Laventan and Neogene Colombia.

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Mandible

In jawed vertebrates, the mandible (from the Latin mandibula, 'for chewing'), lower jaw, or jawbone is a bone that makes up the lowerand typically more mobilecomponent of the mouth (the upper jaw being known as the maxilla).

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Maxilla

In vertebrates, the maxilla (maxillae) is the upper fixed (not fixed in Neopterygii) bone of the jaw formed from the fusion of two maxillary bones.

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Megafauna

In zoology, megafauna (from Greek μέγας megas "large" and Neo-Latin fauna "animal life") are large animals.

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Mekosuchinae

Mekosuchinae is an extinct clade of crocodilians from the Cenozoic of Australasia.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Mourasuchus

Mourasuchus is an extinct genus of giant, aberrant caiman from the Miocene of South America. Langstonia and Mourasuchus are fossils of Colombia, Laventan, Miocene crocodylomorphs, Miocene reptiles of South America, Neogene Colombia and prehistoric pseudosuchian genera.

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Mudrock

Mudrocks are a class of fine-grained siliciclastic sedimentary rocks.

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National University of San Marcos

The National University of San Marcos (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, UNMSM) is a public research university located in Lima, the capital of Peru.

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Notohippidae

Notohippidae is a paraphyletic extinct family of notoungulate mammals from South America.

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Notosuchia

Notosuchia is a suborder of primarily Gondwanan mesoeucrocodylian crocodylomorphs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous.

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Osteoderm

Osteoderms are bony deposits forming scales, plates, or other structures based in the dermis.

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Pabwehshi

Pabwehshi (meaning "Pab beast ") is an extinct genus of mesoeucrocodylian. Langstonia and Pabwehshi are prehistoric pseudosuchian genera.

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Paleocene

The Paleocene, or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago (mya).

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Paleosuchus

Paleosuchus is a South American genus of reptiles in the subfamily Caimaninae of the family Alligatoridae.

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Pehuenchesuchus

Pehuenchesuchus (meaning "Pehuenche crocodile", after the Mapuche name for the region in which it was found) is an extinct genus of sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian. Langstonia and Pehuenchesuchus are prehistoric pseudosuchian genera and sebecids.

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Peirosauridae

Peirosauridae is a Gondwanan family of mesoeucrocodylians that lived during the Cretaceous period.

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Pericotoxodon

Pericotoxodon is an extinct genus of toxodontid notoungulate, from the Miocene period. Langstonia and Pericotoxodon are fossils of Colombia, Laventan and Neogene Colombia.

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Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

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Phorusrhacidae

Phorusrhacids, colloquially known as terror birds, are an extinct family of large carnivorous, mostly flightless birds that were among the largest apex predators in South America during the Cenozoic era.

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Phylogenetic tree

A phylogenetic tree, phylogeny or evolutionary tree is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or taxa during a specific time.

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Premaxilla

The premaxilla (or praemaxilla) is one of a pair of small cranial bones at the very tip of the upper jaw of many animals, usually, but not always, bearing teeth.

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Pristichampsus

Pristichampsus (from πρῐ́στῐς, 'saw' and χαμψαι, 'crocodile') is a non-diagnostic and potentially dubious extinct genus of crocodylian from France and possibly also Kazakhstan that is part of the monotypic Pristichampsidae family. Langstonia and Pristichampsus are prehistoric pseudosuchian genera.

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Purussaurus

Purussaurus is an extinct genus of giant caiman that lived in South America during the Miocene epoch, from the Friasian to the Huayquerian in the SALMA classification. Langstonia and Purussaurus are fossils of Colombia, Laventan, Miocene crocodylomorphs, Miocene reptiles of South America, Neogene Colombia and prehistoric pseudosuchian genera.

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Rio de Janeiro (state)

Rio de Janeiro is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil.

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Sacrum

The sacrum (sacra or sacrums), in human anatomy, is a large, triangular bone at the base of the spine that forms by the fusing of the sacral vertebrae (S1S5) between ages 18 and 30.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Santander Department

Santander is a department of Colombia.

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Sebecidae

Sebecidae is an extinct family of prehistoric terrestrial sebecosuchian crocodylomorphs, known from the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic of Europe and South America. Langstonia and Sebecidae are sebecids.

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Sebecosuchia

Sebecosuchia (meaning "Sobek crocodiles") is an extinct group of mesoeucrocodylian crocodyliforms that includes the families Sebecidae and Baurusuchidae.

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Sebecus

Sebecus (meaning "Sebek" in Latin) is an extinct genus of sebecid crocodylomorph from Eocene of South America. Langstonia and Sebecus are prehistoric pseudosuchian genera and sebecids.

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South American native ungulates

South American native ungulates, commonly abbreviated as SANUs, are extinct ungulate-like mammals of controversial affinities that were indigenous to South America from the Paleocene (from at least 63 million years ago) until the end of the Late Pleistocene (~12,000 years ago).

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Sparassodonta

Sparassodonta (from Greek σπαράσσειν, to tear, rend; and ὀδούς, gen. ὀδόντος, tooth) is an extinct order of carnivorous metatherian mammals native to South America, related to modern marsupials.

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Sphagesaurus

Sphagesaurus is an extinct genus of sphagesaurid notosuchian crocodylomorph from the Late Cretaceous of southwest São Paulo, southern Brazil. Langstonia and Sphagesaurus are prehistoric pseudosuchian genera.

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Squamosal bone

The squamosal is a skull bone found in most reptiles, amphibians, and birds.

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Square

In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four sides of equal length and four equal angles (90-degree angles, π/2 radian angles, or right angles).

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Stratiotosuchus

Stratiotosuchus (from Greek, στρατιώτης (stratiōtēs, "soldier") and σοῦχος (suchos, "crocodile")) is an extinct genus of baurusuchid mesoeucrocodylian from the Adamantina Formation in Brazil. Langstonia and Stratiotosuchus are prehistoric pseudosuchian genera.

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Symphysis

A symphysis (symphyses) is a fibrocartilaginous fusion between two bones.

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Tatacoa Desert

The Tatacoa Desert is the second largest arid zone in Colombia after the Guajira Peninsula.

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Type species

In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langstonia

Also known as Langstonia huilensis, Sebecus huilensis.

, Miocene, Mourasuchus, Mudrock, National University of San Marcos, Notohippidae, Notosuchia, Osteoderm, Pabwehshi, Paleocene, Paleosuchus, Pehuenchesuchus, Peirosauridae, Pericotoxodon, Peru, Phorusrhacidae, Phylogenetic tree, Premaxilla, Pristichampsus, Purussaurus, Rio de Janeiro (state), Sacrum, Sandstone, Santander Department, Sebecidae, Sebecosuchia, Sebecus, South American native ungulates, Sparassodonta, Sphagesaurus, Squamosal bone, Square, Stratiotosuchus, Symphysis, Tatacoa Desert, Type species, University of California, Berkeley, Venezuela, Vertebra, Wann Langston Jr., Zulmasuchus.

Langstonia, the Glossary

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See also

Fossil taxa described in 1965

Miocene crocodylomorphs

Miocene reptiles of South America

Sebecids

References