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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 ...
As one of the first fossil crocodilians to be recognized from Australia, Quinkana has a long history. Some of the earliest fossil finds now attributed to this genus date as far back as 1886, when Charles Walter De Vis found a variety of fossil bones, including those of Quinkana, in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, which he informally dubbed Pallimnarchus pollens (now considered to be a ...
Brochu cladistically defined Planocraniidae as Planocrania hengdongensis and crocodyliforms more closely related to it than to Alligator mississippiensis (American alligator), Crocodylus niloticus (Nile crocodile), Gavialis gangeticus (gharial), Thoracosaurus macrorhynchus, Allodaposuchus precedens, or Hylaeochampsa vectiana.
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 ...
Researchers identified a series of 9-inch-long prints as belonging to an extinct ancestor of the modern crocodile. More than 100 million years ago, an ancestor of today’s alligators and ...
"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.
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 ...