Pristichampsus
Sign in to savePristichampsus (from , 'saw' and , '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. As the type species, Pristichampsus rollinatii, was based on insufficient material when described in 1831 and 1853, the taxonomic status of the genus is in doubt, and other species have been referred to other genera, primarily Boverisuchus.
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Pristichampsus (from , 'saw' and , '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. As the type species, Pristichampsus rollinatii, was based on insufficient material when described in 1831 and 1853, the taxonomic status of the genus is in doubt, and other species have been referred to other genera, primarily Boverisuchus.
==History== thumb|left|Restoration of Pristichampsus (middle) and other animals of the Eocene [[Clarno Formation (Clarno Nut Beds)]] Pristichampsus was first described and named as a species of Crocodylus, C. rollinatii, by John Edward Gray in 1831 on the basis of remains from the Lutetian Sables du Castrais Formation of France. Paul Gervais (1853) assigned this species to its own genus, creating the new combination Pristichampsus rollinatii.
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