Genus: Paranasuchus BONA, BARROS, EZCURRA, BLANCO & CIDADE, 2025
Etymology: In allusion to the geographical province of the holotype species, which comes from the Vicnity of Parana city, Parana, Entre Rios Province, Brazil, and Greek, souchus, "crocodile", refers to the name of the Egyptian crocodile-headed diety Sebek or /sobek.

Species: gasparinae (BONA & CARABAJAL, 2013) BONA, BARROS, EZCURRA, BLANCO & CIDADE, 2025
Etymology: In honor of Dr. Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini, paleoherpetologist at the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, MLP, who dedicated most of her career to the study of extinct crocodyliformes.
= Caiman gasparinae BONA & CARABAJAL, 2013

Holotype: MLP-73-IV-15-1

Locality: Margin of Parana River, in the area of Parana, Entre Rios Province, Argentina.

Horizon: Ituzaingo Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Miocene Epoch, Lower Neogene Period, Upper Tertiary Subera, Middle Cenozoic.

Material: Skull fragments represented by a rostrum with articulated fragments of premaxillae, maxillae, nasals, left lacrymal and a partial braincase lacking the basicranium.

Referred material:

MACN PV 5555: Fragment of right premaxilla.

MLP-Pv 73-IV015-7: Partial skull talbe, lacking the right postorbital and the posterolateral region of the right squamosal.

MLP-Pv 73-IV015-15: Left premaxilla.

 

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