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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, 130 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 ...
Barinasuchus is an extinct crocodylian reptile that lived in modern-day Argentina and Brazil. The name translates to “the Barinas crocodile”, which is a reference to the place where the ...
Crocodylomorpha is a group of pseudosuchian archosaurs that includes the crocodilians and their extinct relatives. They were the only members of Pseudosuchia to survive the end-Triassic extinction. Extinct crocodylomorphs were considerably more ecologically diverse than modern crocodillians.
A pair of researchers with the University of Iowa decided to re-examine existing fossils of the Deinosuchus, a prehistoric ancestor of crocodiles and alligators estimated to be about 33-feet-long ...
Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni likely preyed on hominids like Paranthropus and early members of the genus Homo, both of which are known from the Turkana Basin.Direct evidence of crocodilian predation is known from bite marks on hominin bones from the Olduvai Gorge, and these marks were likely made by the closely related crocodile C. anthropophagus [citation needed] (anthropophagus means "human ...
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 ...
Planocraniidae is an extinct family of eusuchian crocodyliforms known from the Paleogene of Asia, Europe and North America.The family was coined by Li in 1976, and contains three genera, Boverisuchus, Duerosuchus and Planocrania.