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Melitosaurus champsoides

The Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom

  • Title: Melitosaurus champsoides
  • Type status: Holotype
  • Specific epithet: champsoides
  • Phylum: Chordata
  • Order: Crocodylia
  • Locality: Malta, Europe.
  • Latest era or highest erathem: Cenozoic
  • Latest eon or highest eonothem: Phanerozoic
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Identified by: Richard Lydekker; b.1849; d.1913; Lydekker
  • Higher geography: Europe; Malta
  • Higher classification: Animalia; Chordata; Reptilia; Crocodylia; Crocodylidae
  • Genus: Melitosaurus
  • Family: Crocodylidae
  • Earliest period or lowest system: Neogene
  • Earliest era or lowest erathem: Cenozoic
  • Earliest epoch or lowest series: Miocene
  • Earliest eon or Lowest eonothem: Phanerozoic
  • Country: Malta
  • Continent: Europe
  • Class: Reptilia
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