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Sarcosuchus (/ ˌ s ɑːr k oʊ ˈ s uː k ə s /; lit. ' flesh crocodile ') is an extinct genus of crocodyliform and distant relative of living crocodilians that lived during the Early Cretaceous, from the late Hauterivian to the early Albian, 133 to 112 million years ago of what is now Africa and South America.
Deinosuchus (/ ˌ d aɪ n ə ˈ sj uː k ə s /) is an extinct genus of alligatoroid crocodilian, related to modern alligators and caimans, that lived 82 to 73 million years ago (Ma), during the late Cretaceous period. The name translates as "terrible crocodile" and is derived from the Greek deinos (δεινός), "terrible", and soukhos ...
Kaprosuchus is an extinct genus of mahajangasuchid crocodyliform. It is known from a single nearly complete skull collected from the Upper Cretaceous Echkar Formation of Niger . The name means "boar crocodile" from the Greek κάπρος , kapros ("boar") and σοῦχος , soukhos ("crocodile") in reference to its unusually large caniniform ...
A Brazilian scientist has identified fossils of a small crocodile-like reptile that lived during the Triassic Period several million years before the first dinosaurs. The fossils of the predator ...
The discovery of a prehistoric crocodile fossil in Peru from around 7 million years ago has given paleontologists more clues as to how modern crocodiles, all freshwater creatures in the Andean ...
"Crocodylus" gariepensis is an extinct species of crocodile that lived in southern Africa during the Early Miocene [1] about 17.5 million years ago (Ma). [2] Fossils have been found along a bank of the Orange River in Namibia, near its border with South Africa. [1]
A 2003 expedition also yielded additional remains of M. inexpectatus, [7] with additional fossils of M. whitehunterensis being found as well. [8] [9] [10] The generic name of Mekosuchus derives from the Drehu name for Grande Terre, Mek, in combination with the suffix -suchus meaning crocodile. [2]
A pair of researchers with the University of Iowa decided to re-examine existing fossils of the Deinosuchus, a prehistoric ancestor of crocodiles and alligators estimated to be about 33-feet-long ...