Elosuchus

Taxobox
name = "Elosuchus"
fossil_range = Early Cretaceous

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Elosuchus cherifiensis"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
unranked_ordo = Mesoeucrocodylia
familia = Elosuchidae
genus = "Elosuchus"
genus_authority = de Broin, 2002
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "S. cherifiensis" (Lavocat, 1955) Broin, 2002
* "S. felixi" Broin, 2002
fossil-range = Early Cretaceous "Elosuchus" is an extinct genus of neosuchian crocodile that lived during the Early Cretaceous of what is now North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Niger).The genus contains two species, "E. cherifiensis" from Algeria and Morocco, formerly described as a species of "Thoracosaurus" by Lavocat, [Lavocat, R., 1955, Decouverte d'un Crocodilien du genre Thoracosaurus dans le Cretace Superiuer d'Afrique: Bulletin du Museum National d'Historie Naturelle, Paris, v. 2, n. 27, p. 338-340.] and "E. felixi" from Niger. The genus has been recognized to be separate from "Thoracosaurus" by Broin in 2002. [de Broin, F. de L., 2002, "Elosuchus", a new genus of crocodile from the Lower Cretaceous of the North of Africa: C. R. Palevol, v. 1, p. 275-285.] who created the family Elosuchidae that also contains the genus "Stolokrosuchus" from Niger. [Larrson, H. C. E., and Gado, B., 2000, A new early Cretaceous crocodyliform from Niger: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 217, n. 1, p. 131-141.] "Elosuchus" had an elongated snout like a gharial and was probably a fully aquatic animal.

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