Barinasuchus

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Barinasuchus (meaning "Barinas crocodile", in reference to where the type material was found) is an extinct genus of sebecid mesoeucrocodylian. It lived in Argentina, Peru, and Venezuela between the middle Eocene and the Late Miocene, ~42–11.6 Ma. Described in 2007, based on a severely damaged specimen from which only a snout tip was recovered, Barinasuchus is known from a single species, B. arveloi, named after Alberto Arvelo Torrealba, a local educator and poet. The type specimen of Barinasuchus, discovered by road workers in Venezuela in 1973, originally consisted of a substantial portion of the skeleton, though much of it was accidentally destroyed when they attempted to excavate it, leaving only a partial snout and mandible (lower jaw). The specimen comes from the Miocene-age Parángula Formation, and was described in 2007 by Alfredo Paolillo and Omar J. Linares. A second specimen of Barinasuchus was recovered from the Miocene Ipururo Formation of Peru, and was described in 1977 by...

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