Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências Print version ISSN
0001-3765 CAMPOS, Diogenes A. et al. On a new peirosaurid
crocodyliform from the Upper Cretaceous, Bauru Group,
southeastern Brazil. An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc. [online]. 2011,
vol.83, n.1, pp. 317-327. ISSN 0001-3765.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0001-37652011000100020. A new
crocodyliform from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-
Maastrichtian) Presidente Prudente Formation of the Bauru Group
is described based on two almost complete skulls and mandibles.
The material comes from the "Tartaruguito" site, situated at an
old railroad between the cities of Pirapozinho and Presidente
Prudente, state of São Paulo, Brazil. The new species,
Pepesuchus deiseae gen. et sp. nov., is classified in the clade
Peirosauridae on the basis of three synapomorphies: the presence
of five premaxillary teeth, the anterior two premaxillary
alveoli nearly confluent, and the oval cross-section of the
jugal along the lower temporal bar. The new taxon increases the
outstanding crocodylif