Fortignathus

Fortignathus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, ~100–95  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauria
Clade:	Pseudosuchia
Clade:	Crocodylomorpha
Clade:	Crocodyliformes
Clade:	† Notosuchia
Clade:	† Sebecosuchia
Clade:	† Sebecia
Family:	† Peirosauridae
Genus:	† Fortignathus Young et al., 2016
Species:	†F. felixi
Binomial name
†Fortignathus felixi (de Lapparent de Broin, 2002)
Synonyms
Elosuchus felixide Lapparent de Broin, 2002

Fortignathus is an extinct genus of dyrosaurid ^[1] or peirosaurid ^[2] crocodylomorph known from the Late Cretaceous Echkar Formation in Niger. It contains a single species, Fortignathus felixi, which was originally named as a species of Elosuchus in 2002. ^{[1] [3]}

References

1. Young, Mark T.; Hastings, Alexander K.; Allain, Ronan; Smith, Thomas J. (July 2016). "Revision of the enigmatic crocodyliform Elosuchus felixi de Lapparent de Broin, 2002 from the Lower-Upper Cretaceous boundary of Niger: potential evidence for an early origin of the clade Dyrosauridae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12452 . ISSN   0024-4082.
2. Jouve, Stéphane; de Muizon, Christian; Cespedes-Paz, Ricardo; Sossa-Soruco, Víctor; Knoll, Stephane (2020-10-19). "The longirostrine crocodyliforms from Bolivia and their evolution through the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 192 (2): 475–509. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa081. ISSN   0024-4082.
3. de Broin, F. de L., (2002), Elosuchus , a new genus of crocodile from the Lower Cretaceous of the North of Africa: C. R. Palevol, v. 1, p. 275-285.