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Tracks of a crocodyliform are known since Cretaceous, at least. Tracks representing the ichnofamily Batrachopodidae are described from the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian) Calonda Formation by Mateus et al. (2017), who name a new ichnotaxon Angolaichnus adamanticus. [7]
Stolokrosuchus is an extinct genus of crocodyliforms that lived during the Early Cretaceous. Its fossils, including a skull with a long thin snout and bony knobs on the prefrontal, have been found in Niger. Stolokrosuchus was described in 2000 by Hans Larsson and Boubacar Gado. The type species is S. lapparenti.
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.
Crocodilia (/ k r ɒ k ə ˈ d ɪ l i ə /) is an order of semiaquatic, predatory reptiles that are known as crocodilians.They first appeared during the Late Cretaceous and are the closest living relatives of birds.
Modern crocodilians, a subgroup of Neosuchia, emerged during the Late Cretaceous. [8] Crocodylomorph diversity was severely reduced by the end-Cretaceous extinction event . [ 9 ] The last group of terrestrially adapted crocodylomorphs was the Sebecidae , a group of large predatory notosuchians which persisted in South America until the middle ...
Zosuchus ("Zos [Canyon] crocodile") is a genus of basal, Late Cretaceous crocodyliform from Mongolia. The type species is Z. davidsoni, after preparator Amy Davidson. The name was amended to davidsonae in 2004.
Gobiosuchidae is a family of Cretaceous crocodyliforms known from ... (2004). "A new gobiosuchid crocodyliform taxon from the Cretaceous of Mongolia". American Museum ...
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 ...