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{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Bretesuchus
| fossil_range = [[Late Paleocene]] ([[Itaboraian]]-[[Riochican]])<br />~{{fossil_range|58.7|55.8}}
| image = Bretesuchus bonapartei.jpg
| authority = Gasparini, Fernandez & Powell, [[1993 in paleontology|1993]]
| type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Bretesuchus bonapartei'''''
| type_species_authority = Gasparini ''et al.'', 1993
}}

'''''Bretesuchus''''' is an [[extinct]] [[genus]] of [[sebecosuchia]]n [[mesoeucrocodylia]]n within the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Sebecidae]] known from northwestern [[Argentina]].<ref name=FWBretesuchus>[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=157980 ''Bretesuchus''] at [[Fossilworks]].org</ref><ref name=Bretesuchus>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1080/10292389309380440 | last1 = Gasparini | first1 = Zulma | last2 = Fernandez | first2 = Marta | last3 = Powell | first3 = Jaime E. | year = 1993 | title = New Tertiary sebecosuchians (Crocodylomorpha) from South America: phylogenetic implications | journal = Historical Biology | volume = 7 | pages = 1–19 | bibcode = 1993HBio....7....1G }}</ref> It was a large [[apex predator]] (total length approximately 4 m).<ref>http://darrennaish.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/naish-2001-geology-today-crocodilians.pdf page 73.</ref>

== Discovery ==
[[Fossil]]s of ''Bretesuchus'' have been found in the [[El Brete]] locality, from the [[Maíz Gordo Formation]] of northwestern [[Argentina]] and date back to the [[Thanetian]] stage of the late [[Palaeocene]], about 58.7-55.8 [[mya (unit)|million years ago]].<ref name=Bretesuchus/> The highly bent [[premaxilla]] shows that it lies within the [[suborder]] [[Sebecosuchia]], a group of mostly [[South America]]n terrestrial carnivorous [[Crocodylomorpha|crocodylomorphs]] with distinctive laterally compressed snouts.<ref name=Bretesuchus/><ref>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0087:ANSCFT]2.0.CO;2 | last1 = Turner | first1 = A. H. | last2 = Calvo | first2 = J. O. | year = 2005 | title = A new sebecosuchian crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia | journal = [[Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology]] | volume = 25 | issue = 1| pages = 87–98 }}</ref> ''Bretesuchus'' was originally assigned to its own [[family (biology)|family]], the [[Bretesuchidae]] which was found to be the sister group of ''[[Sebecus]]''.<ref name=Bretesuchus/> In 2007, a species of ''[[Sebecus]]'', ''S. querejazus'' from the Early Paleocene [[Santa Lucia Formation]] in [[Bolivia]], was reclassified as a bretesuchid. It was given its own genus, ''[[Zulmasuchus]]''.<ref name=PL07>{{cite journal |last=Paolillo |first=A. |author2=Linares, O. |year=2007 |title=Nuevos cocodrilos Sebecosuchia del Cenozoica Suramericana (Mesosuchia : Crocodylia) |journal=Paleobiologia Neotropical |volume=3 |pages=1–25 |url=http://www.paleobio.labb.usb.ve/Paleobio03.pdf |access-date=2012-01-14 |archive-date=2009-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303221605/http://www.paleobio.labb.usb.ve/Paleobio03.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> However, recent [[phylogenetic]] analyses found Bretesuchidae to nest deeply within [[Sebecidae]], and thus to be synonymous with it. ''Zulmasuchus'' was found to be closely related to ''Sebecus'', as originally had been proposed.<ref name=Lorosuchus>{{cite journal |author=Diego Pol and Jaime E. Powell |year=2011 |title=A new sebecid mesoeucrocodylian from the Rio Loro Formation (Palaeocene) of north-western Argentina |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=163 |pages=S7–S36 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00714.x |doi-access=free |hdl=11336/69518 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

== Etymology ==
[[File:Bretesuchus.jpg|thumbnail|left|''Bretesuchus'' capturing an hypothetical notoungulate.]]
''Bretesuchus'' was named by [[Zulma Gasparini]], [[Marta Fernández (basketball)|Marta Fernandez]] and [[Jaime E. Powell]] in [[1993 in paleontology|1993]] and the [[type species]] is ''Bretesuchus bonapartei''. The [[name of a biological genus|generic name]] refers to the "El Brete" locality, where the fossil remains were found, and ''suchus'', [[Latin]]ized from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''souchos'', an Egyptian crocodile god. The [[specific name (zoology)|specific name]] honors [[Jose Bonaparte]].<ref name=Bretesuchus/>

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== References ==
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[[Category:Sebecidae]]
[[Category:Paleocene crocodylomorphs]]
[[Category:Paleocene reptiles of South America]]
[[Category:Riochican]]
[[Category:Itaboraian]]
[[Category:Thanetian life]]
[[Category:Paleogene Argentina]]
[[Category:Fossils of Argentina]]
[[Category:Salta Basin]]
[[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1993]]
[[Category:Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera]]

Bretesuchus - Revision history

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