Tilemsisuchus
{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}}
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| taxon = Tilemsisuchus
| fossil_range = Eocene
| type_species = {{extinct}}Tilemsisuchus lavocati
| type_species_authority = Buffetaut, 1979
}}
Tilemsisuchus is an extinct genus of dyrosaurid crocodyliform which existed in what is now Mali during the Eocene period. It was first named by Eric Buffetaut in 1979Page 545, Vertebrate fossils and the evolution of scientific concepts: writings in tribute to Beverly Halstead by William Antony S. Sarjeant, L. B. Halstead. Taylor & Francis, 1995. {{ISBN|2881249965}}/{{ISBN|9782881249969}} and contains the species Tilemsisuchus lavocati.Wounds on the jaw of an Eocene mesosuchian crocodilian as possible evidence for the antiquity of crocodilian intraspecific fighting behaviour, by Eric Buffetaut, Laboratoire de Paléontologie des Vertébrés, Université Paris VI, 4 place Jussieu, 75230 Paris Cedex 05, France. [https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF03031756].
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External links
- [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38373 Tilemsisuchus] at the Paleobiology Database
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Category:Eocene crocodylomorphs
Category:Paleocene reptiles of Africa
Category:Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera
Category:Prehistoric marine crocodylomorphs
Category:Taxa named by Éric Buffetaut
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