Pabwehshi

{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = ''Pabwehshi'' | taxon = Pabwehshi | fossil_range = Late Cretaceous, {{fossil_range|Maastrichtian}} | authority = Wilson et al., 2001 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *†'''''P. pakistanensis''''' <small>Wilson et al., 2001 (type)</small> }}

'''''Pabwehshi''''' (meaning "Pab [Formation] beast ["wehshi" in Urdu]") is an extinct genus of baurusuchine mesoeucrocodylian. It is based on GSP-UM 2000, a partial snout and corresponding lower jaw elements, with another snout assigned to it. These specimens were found in Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous rocks of the Vitakri and Pab formations in Balochistan, Pakistan, and represent the first diagnostic crocodyliform fossils from Cretaceous rocks of South Asia. ''Pabwehshi'' had serrated interlocking teeth in its snout that formed a "zig-zag" cutting edge. ''Pabwehshi'' was named in 2001 by Jeffrey A. Wilson and colleagues. The type species is ''P. pakistanensis'', in reference to the nation where it was found.<ref name=JAWetal01>{{cite journal |last=Wilson |first=Jeffrey A. |author2=Malkani, M. Sadiq |author3= Gingerich, Philip D. |year=2001 |title=New crocodyliform (Reptilia, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Upper Cretaceous Pab Formation of Vitakri, Balochistan (Pakistan) |journal=Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan |volume=30 |issue=12 |pages=321–336}}</ref> It was traditionally classified as a baurusuchid closely related to ''Cynodontosuchus'' and ''Baurusuchus''.<ref name=JAWetal01/><ref name=TC05>{{cite journal |last=Turner |first=A.H. |author2=Calvo, 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 |doi=10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0087:ANSCFT]2.0.CO;2}}</ref><ref name=Nascimento10>{{cite journal |year=2010 |title=A new species of ''Baurusuchus'' (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil, with the first complete postcranial skeleton described from the family Baurusuchidae |url=http://www.scielo.br/pdf/paz/v50n21/a01v5021.pdf |journal=Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia |volume=50 |issue=21 |pages=323‑361 |author1=Paulo Miranda Nascimento |author2=Hussam Zaher |name-list-style=amp |doi=10.1590/s0031-10492010002100001|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=TS10>{{cite journal |last=Turner |first=A.H. |author2=Sertich, J.W. |year=2010 |title=Phylogenetic history of ''Simosuchus clarki'' (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=30 |issue=6, Memoir 10 |pages=177–236 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2010.532348|s2cid=86737170 }}</ref><ref name=Campinasuchus>{{cite journal |year=2011 |title=''Campinasuchus dinizi'' gen. et sp. nov., a new Late Cretaceous baurusuchid (Crocodyliformes) from the Bauru Basin, Brazil |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02871p042.pdf |journal=Zootaxa |volume=2871 |pages=19–42 |author=Ismar De Souza Carvalho |author2=Vicente De Paula Antunes Teixeira |author3=Mara Lúcia Da Fonseca Ferraz |author4=Luiz Carlos Borges Ribeiro |author5=Agustín Guillermo Martinelli |author6=Francisco Macedo Neto |author7=Joseph J. W. Sertich |author8=Gabriel Cardoso Cunha |author9=Isabella Cardoso Cunha |author10=Patrícia Fonseca Ferraz |name-list-style=amp |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2871.1.2 }}</ref><ref name=Lorosuchus>{{cite journal |author1=Diego Pol |author2=Jaime E. Powell |name-list-style=amp |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> Larsson and Sues (2007) found close affinity between ''Pabwehshi'' and the Peirosauridae within Sebecia.<ref name=LAS07>{{cite journal |last=Larsson |first=H. C. E. |author2=Sues, H.-D. |year=2007 |title=Cranial osteology and phylogenetic relationships of ''Hamadasuchus rebouli'' (Crocodyliformes: Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Cretaceous of Morocco |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=149 |pages=533–567 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00271.x |issue=4|doi-access=free }}</ref> Montefeltro et al. ''Pabwehshi'' has a sagittal torus on its maxillary palatal shelves – a character that is absent in baurusuchids – but they did not include ''Pabwehshi'' in their phylogenetic analysis.<ref name=MLL11>{{cite journal |last=Montefeltro |first=F.C. |author2=Larsson, H.C.E. |author3= Langer, M.C. |year=2011 |title=A New Baurusuchid (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil and the Phylogeny of Baurusuchidae|journal=PLOS ONE |volume=6 |issue=7 |article-number=e21916 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0021916 |editor1-last=Farke |editor1-first=Andrew Allen |pmid=21765925 |pmc=3135595|bibcode=2011PLoSO...621916M |doi-access=free }}</ref>

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Category:Late Cretaceous crocodylomorphs of Asia Category:Taxa named by Jeffrey A. Wilson Category:Fossil taxa described in 2001 Category:Notosuchia Category:Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera