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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.
Gadoufaoua (Tuareg for "the place where camels fear to go") is a site within the Elrhaz Formation (located at ) in the Tenere desert of Niger known for its extensive fossil graveyard It is where remains of Sarcosuchus imperator , popularly known as SuperCroc , were found (by Paul Sereno in 1997, for example), including vertebrae, limb bones ...
New fossil remains of Sarcosuchus are described from the Aptian-Albian deposits of the Tataouine Basin by Dridi (2018). [37] A revision of Trematochampsa taqueti and all fossil material assigned to the species is published by Meunier & Larsson (2018). [38]
A study on patterns of evolutionary integration among regions of the archosaur skull, based on data from extant and fossil taxa, is published by Felice et al. (2019). [1]A review of the biogeographic history of crocodyliforms, sauropod dinosaurs, nonavian theropod dinosaurs and mammals from the Mesozoic of Gondwana is published by Krause et al. (2019).
The fossils of Sarcosaurus were found in the Lower Lias of England. The type species, Sarcosaurus woodi, was first described by Charles William Andrews in 1921 shortly after a partial skeleton had been found by S.L. Wood near Barrow-on-Soar, in the Scunthorpe Mudstone. The generic name is derived from Greek sarx, "flesh".
Hone et al. (2024) report that the fossil material assigned to Luchibang xingzhe is a composite including remains of two pterosaurs, restrict the holotype to the rostrum and anterior mandible and consider this fossil material to be sufficient to confirm that L. xingzhe was a valid istiodactylid taxon, and interpret the purported postcranial ...
Millions of prehistoric marine fossils were discovered beneath a California high school over the course of a multi-year construction project. The relics recovered at San Pedro High School included ...
Sacacosuchus is an extinct monospecific genus of marine gavialid that lived along the coast of the south-east Pacific from approximately 19 to 6.3 million years ago. Its fossils have been found in the Chilcatay and Pisco Formations of Peru, where it coexisted with the much larger Piscogavialis.