Sahitisuchus
Name:
Sahitisuchus
(angry/brave crocodile).
Phonetic: Sah-it-e-su-kus.
Named By: A. W. A. Kellner, A. E. P.
Pinheiro & D. A. Campos - 2014.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Crocodylomorpha, Sebecosuchia, Sebecia, Sebecidae.
Species: S. fluminensis
(type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Skull roughly about 32 centimetres in
length.
Known locations: Brazil.
Time period: Thanetian of the Paleocene/Ypresian of
the Eocene.
Fossil representation: Skull and lower jaws.
Sahitisuchus is a genus of sebesuchid crocodile that lived in South America during the Paleocene/Eocene. Sahitisuchus is thought to have been semi aquatic and as a sebesuchis would have been related to genera such as Sebecus, Langstonia and Zulmasuchus.
Further reading
- A new sebecid from the Paleogene of Brazil and the crocodyliform
radiation after the K–Pg boundary. - PLoS ONE 9(1). - A.
W. A. Kellner, A. E. P. Pinheiro & D. A.
Campos - 2014.
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