Unasuchus

Unasuchus is an extinct genus of Early Cretaceous eusuchian belonging to the family Hylaeochampsidae. The genus is named after Uña, a municipality in central Spain where fossils have been found.^[1]

Unasuchus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, Barremian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauria
Clade:	Pseudosuchia
Clade:	Crocodylomorpha
Clade:	Neosuchia
Clade:	Eusuchia
Family:	†Hylaeochampsidae
Genus:	†Unasuchus Brinkmann, 1992
Species
†U. reginae Brinkmann, 1992 (type)

Discovery and classification

Unasuchus is known only from skull and jaw fragments, meaning that it initially defied precise classification within Crocodyliformes, but the cladistic analysis of Turcosuchus recovers Unasuchus as a derived hylaeochampsid.^[2][3] These remains have been found from the Barremian Las Hoyas Formation.^[4] The type species, U. reginae, was named in 1992.