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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hispanochampsa is
an extinct genus of alligatoroid crocodilian. More than 100 fossils
dating back to the Oligocene have been found from Lleida, Spain. The
genus was first named in 1936, and was initially thought to be an
alligatorid. However, in 2006 it was proposed that Hispanochampsa was a
member of the subfamily Diplocynodontinae and possibly synonymous with
Diplocynodon based on the presence of paired ossifications of the
ventral osteoderms and a widened illiac blade. It has been suggested on
the basis of the wide jugal foramen and dentary occlusion that
Hispanochampsa was closely related to a contemporary Spanish species of
Diplocynodon, D. tormis.