Langstonia
| Langstonia | |
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| Specimen diagram and size comparison showcasing the known specimens, preserved bones in white (grid: 50 cm) | |
| Skull diagram showcasing known remains between the specimens, scale bar representative of the holotype specimen (UCMP 37877) and IGM 250816 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | †Notosuchia |
| Family: | †Sebecidae |
| Genus: | †Langstonia Paolillo & Linares, 2007 |
| Species: | †L. huilensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Langstonia huilensis (Langston, 1965)
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Langstonia (meaning "[crocodile] of Langston", in honor of paleontologist Wann Langston, Jr.) is an extinct genus of notosuchian crocodylomorph of the family Sebecidae. It lived in the middle Miocene (specifically in the Laventan land-mammal age), in the "Monkey Beds" of the Colombian Villavieja Formation. Langstonia was named in 2007 by Alfredo Paolillo and Omar Linares for fossils originally described by Langston in 1965 as Sebecus huilensis. Thus, the type species is L. huilensis.