Genus: Musturzabalsuchus BUSCALIONI, ORTEGA & VASSE, 1997
Etymology: “Musturzabal” means “Broadened rostrum” in Euskera and Latin, suchus, “crocodile.”

Species: buffetauti BUSCALIONI, ORTEGA & VASSE, 1997
Etymology: Is devoted to the French palaeoherpetologist Eric Buffetaut for his important contribution to the Upper Cretaceous archosaurian faunas.
= Maybe Allodaposuchus ASTIBIA, BUFFETAUT, BUSCALIONI, CAPPETTA, CORRAL, ESTES, GARCIA-GARMILLA, JAEGER, JIMENEZ-FUENTES LE LOEUFF, MAZIN, ORUE-ETXEBARRIA, PEREDA-SUBERBIOLIA, POWELL, RAGE, RODRIGUEX-LAZARO, SANZ AND TONG. 1989.

Holotype: MCNA 1881

Locality: Disused sand quarry near the village of Lano, Lano quarry, Trevino County, about 20 km SE of the City of Victoria, Basque-Cantabric Basin, Basque County, Iberian Peninsula, Spain.

Horizon: Sobrepena Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Uppermost Campanian-Lowermost Maastrichtian Stage, Upper Senonian subepoch, Upper Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: A complete left maxilla.

Paratypes:

MCNA 7478: Left maxilla.

MCNA 7479: Right ramus of mandible.

MCNA 7480: Right ramus of mandible.

MCNA 7481: Right ramus of mandible.

MCNA 7482: Fragment of premaxilla.

Referred material:

BUSCALINI, ORTEGA & VASSE, 1999

MCNA 1823: Left dentary with 1 associated tooth.

MCNA 1823: Left dentary with 1 associated tooth.

MCNA 1889: Right dentary with associated teeth, left dentary with associated teeth.

MCNA 7478: Left maxilla, with associated teeth.

MCNA 7479: Right ramus of mandible with associated teeth.

MCNA 7480: Right ramus of mandible with all the teeth.

MCNA 7483: Left surangular.

MCNA 7484: Right maxilla.

MCNA 7485: Right maxilla with associated teeth.

MCNA 7486: Right dentary.

MCNA 7487: Left maxilla.

MCNA 7488: Small fragment of maxilla with teeth.

MCNA 7489: Left ramus of the mandibular symphysis.

MCNA 7490: Left surangular.

MCNA 7491: Right surangular.

MCNA 7493: Left dentary with 1 associated tooth.

MCNA 7494: Right mandibular fragment.

MCNA 7495a: Fragment of mandible.

MCNA 7495b: Surangular fragment.

MCNA 7496: Left maxilla with associated teeth.

MCNA 7502: Maxillary fragment.

MCNA 7510: Maxillary fragment with ectopteyrgoidean sturture.

 

BUFFETAUT, 1980 (as per BUSCALINI, ORTEGA & VASSE, 1999)

Locality: French Fuvelian lignites of Province, France.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Campanian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material:

MNHM 1982-849: Rostrum fragment.

 


BUSCALINI, ORTEGA & VASSE, 1999

Locality: Armuna, Segovia Province, Spain.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Campanian-Maastrichtian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UPUAM-502: A complete isolated mandible.

 

COMPANY, PEREDA-SUBERBIOLA & RUIZ-OMEANCA, 2000

Locality: Chera, Iberian Chain, Valencia Province, Spain.

Horizon: Sierra Perenchiza Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Campanian-Maastrichtian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

Number: Not given: Jaw bones and isolated teeth.