Extinct family of reptiles
Bernissartiidae is an extinct family of neosuchian crocodyliformes known from the Early Cretaceous .[1] Bernissartiid fossils have been reported from Belgium, France, Spain, England, Tunisia and the United States. It currently contains two genera, Bernissartia from the Barremian aged Sainte-Barbe Clays of Belgium and Koumpiodontosuchus from the equivalently aged Wessex Formation in southern England.[2] Members of this family display adaptations for a durophagous lifestyle, especially the heterodont dentition of Koumpiodontosuchus . Indeterminate remains have been reported from the Oum ed Diab Member of Tunisia, the Cloverly Formation and Arundel Clay of the United States, and the La Huérguina Formation , Blesa Formation , Villanueva de Huerva Formation , El Castellar Formation , Camarillas Formation and El Collado Formation of Spain, and the Angeac-Charente bonebed in France.[3]
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