Unasuchus
Extinct genus of reptiles
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Unasuchus is an extinct genus of Early Cretaceous eusuchian belonging to the family Hylaeochampsidae. The genus is named after Uña, a municipality in central Spain where fossils have been found.[1]
| Unasuchus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, Barremian | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Neosuchia |
| Clade: | Eusuchia |
| Family: | †Hylaeochampsidae |
| Genus: | †Unasuchus Brinkmann, 1992 |
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Discovery and classification
Unasuchus is known only from skull and jaw fragments, meaning that it initially defied precise classification within Crocodyliformes, but the cladistic analysis of Turcosuchus recovers Unasuchus as a derived hylaeochampsid.[2][3] These remains have been found from the Barremian Las Hoyas Formation.[4] The type species, U. reginae, was named in 1992.
