Elosuchus
Name: Elosuchus.
Phonetic: E-lo-su-kuss.
Named By: F. de Lapparent de Broin - 2002.
Synonyms: Thoracosaurus cherifiensis.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Crocodyliformes, Pholidosauridae.
Species: E. cherifiensis
(type), E. broinae.
Diet: Carnivore/piscivore
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Algeria - Continental
Intercalaire Formation. Morocco - Ifezouane Formation, Kem Kem
Formation.
Time period: Albian/Cenomanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial remains of several
individuals.
Originally described as a species of Thoracosaurus, T. cherifiensis was established as a distinct genus in 2002, creating Elosuchus. Elosuchus was a marine crocodile that that possibly spent most of its life in the water. The gharial -like snout is suggestive that Elosuchus was more of a fish hunter.
Further reading
- Elosuchus, a new genus of crocodile from the
Lower Cretaceous of
the north of Africa. - Comptes Rendus Palevol 1:275-285 - F.
de Lapparent de Broin - 2002.
- Revision and phylogenetic affinities of Elosuchus
(Crocodyliformes). - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
179 (1) - Louise M. V. Meunier; Hans C. E. Larsson
- 2016
- Revision of the enigmatic crocodyliform Elosuchus felixi de Lapparent
de Broin, 2002 from the Lower–Upper Cretaceous boundary of Niger:
potential evidence for an early origin of the clade Dyrosauridae. -
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. - Mark T. Young, Alexander
K. Hastings, Ronan Allain & Thomas J. Smith - 2016.
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