Category:Purussaurus

**Purussaurus**
	extinct genus of giant caimans
	Upload media
	Wikipedia
Instance of	fossil taxon;
Location of discovery	Pebas Formation; Castilletes Formation; Culebra Formation; Urumaco Formation;
Has part(s)	Purussaurus brasiliensis; Purussaurus mirandai; Purussaurus neivensis;
Start time	20,400th millennium BC;
End time	5,300th millennium BC;
Mass	5.16 t;
Length	10.3 m;
Common name
	العربية: بيوروصور; български: пурузаври; català: Purussaure; Ελληνικά: Πουρούσσαυρος; فارسی: پوروسوروس; עברית: פורוסזאורוס; 日本語: プルスサウルス; 한국어: 푸루스사우루스; português: Purussauro; русский: Пурусзавры; українська: Пурусзавр; 中文: 普鲁斯鳄属; 中文（中国大陆）: 普鲁斯鳄属; 中文（简体）: 普鲁斯鳄属; 中文（繁體）: 普魯斯鱷; 中文（香港）: 普魯斯鱷; 中文（新加坡）: 普鲁斯鳄; 中文（臺灣）: 普魯斯鱷;
Taxonomy
Class	Reptilia
Superorder	Crocodylomorpha
Order	Crocodilia
Superfamily	Alligatoroidea
Family	Alligatoridae
Subfamily	Caiman
Genus	Purussaurus
Taxon author	João Barbosa Rodrigues, 1892
Authority file
	Q133296; Encyclopedia of Life ID: 4472819; Fossilworks taxon ID: 194770; GBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update): 4821898; IRMNG ID: 1129895
	Reasonator; Scholia; Wikidocumentaries; PetScan; statistics; WikiMap; Locator tool; KML file; Search depicted; Files depicting this taxon;

Regnum: Animalia • Phylum: Chordata • Cladus: Reptilia • Subclassis: Diapsida • Infraclassis: Archosauromorpha • Divisio: Archosauria • Superordo: Crocodylomorpha • Ordo: Crocodilia • Subordo: Eusuchia • Familia: Alligatoridae • Genus: Purussaurus

Fossilworks PaleoDB link: Purussaurus Barbosa Rodrigues 1892 (extinct)

Media in category "Purussaurus"

The following 16 files are in this category, out of 16 total.

Large crocodyliformes 2015.png 5,938 × 3,599; 581 KB
Large crocodyliformes-ar.svg 2,027 × 1,227; 76 KB
Large crocodyliformes.png 1,750 × 1,000; 133 KB
Large crocodyliformes.svg 1,750 × 1,000; 94 KB
Purrussaurus.jpg 1,579 × 427; 350 KB
Purusaurio.jpg 3,000 × 4,000; 2.32 MB
Purusaurus size (2).png 1,919 × 509; 107 KB
Purussaurus brasilienses Scale.png 3,655 × 1,300; 333 KB
Purussaurus BW.jpg 719 × 318; 68 KB
Purussaurus Holotype plate XVI.jpg 1,860 × 2,800; 605 KB
Purussaurus neivensis.png 3,016 × 945; 216 KB
Purussaurus skull.PNG 1,300 × 2,136; 449 KB
Purussaurus.jpg 4,000 × 1,800; 3.81 MB
Razanandrongobe-fig9-recon.jpg 822 × 500; 122 KB
Sarcosuchus-Ame-FCF.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 4.73 MB
“Dinosuchus terror” vertebra.jpg 1,028 × 702; 164 KB