泥炭鳄属

泥炭鳄属; 化石时期：白堊紀晚期
科学分类
界：	动物界 Animalia
门：	脊索动物门 Chordata
纲：	Reptilia
科：	†泥炭鳄科 Sphagesauridae
属：	†泥炭鳄属 Sphagesaurus; Price, 1950
種
	休尼氏泥炭鱷 S. huenei Price, 1950 (模式種); 蒙特阿爾托泥炭鱷 S. montealtensis Andrade & Bertini, 2008;

泥炭鱷（學名：）是種已滅絕鱷類，屬於鱷形超目諾托鱷類的泥炭鱷科，生存於白堊紀晚期的巴西。

發現與種

泥炭鱷的模式種是休尼氏泥炭鱷（S. huenei），在1950年被命名，化石是一些個別的牙齒。[1]在2003年，一個幾乎完整的顱骨出土，有助於科學家建構出休尼氏泥炭鱷與其他諾托鱷類的演化關係。[2]第二個種是蒙特阿爾托泥炭鱷（S. montealtensis），同樣也生前於白堊紀晚期的巴西。[3]

參考資料

Price LI. 1950. On a new crocodilian, Sphagesaurus, from the Cretaceous of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 22 (1): 77-85.
Pol D. 2003. New remains of Sphagesaurus huenei (Crocodylomorpha: Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23 (4): 817–831.
Andrade MB, Bertini RJ. 2008. A new Sphagesaurus (Mesoeucrocodylia: Notosuchia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Monte Alto City (Bauru Group, Brazil), and a revision of the Sphagesauridae. Historical Biology 20 (2): 101-136.

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[1] Price LI. 1950. On a new crocodilian, Sphagesaurus, from the Cretaceous of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 22 (1): 77-85.

[Pol,_2003-2] Pol D. 2003. New remains of Sphagesaurus huenei (Crocodylomorpha: Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23 (4): 817–831.

[3] Andrade MB, Bertini RJ. 2008. A new Sphagesaurus (Mesoeucrocodylia: Notosuchia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Monte Alto City (Bauru Group, Brazil), and a revision of the Sphagesauridae. Historical Biology 20 (2): 101-136.