Iberosuchus

Taxobox
name = "Iberosuchus"
fossil_range = Eocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
subclassis = Diapsida
infraclassis = Archosauromorpha
unranked_ordo = Crurotarsi
superordo = Crocodylomorpha
unranked_familia = Mesoeucrocodylia
familia= Sebecosuchidae
genus="Iberosuchus"
genus_authority=Antunes, 1975
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*"I. macrodon" Antunes, 1975 (type)

"Iberosuchus" (meaning "Iberian crocodile") is an extinct genus of sebecosuchid mesoeucrocodylian from the Eocene of western Europe. It was described in 1975 by Antunes from remains from Portugal as a sebecosuchian crocodilian. The type species is "I. macrodon".cite journal |last=Antunes |first=M.T. |year=1975 |title="Iberosuchus", crocodile Sebecosuchien nouveau, l’Eocène ibérique au nord de la Chaîne central, et l’origine du canyon de Nazaré |journal=Comunicaçoes dos Servicos Geologicos de Portugal |volume=59 |pages=285–330 |language=Portuguese ] It was reclassified as a baurusuchid by Robert Carroll in 1988,cite book |last=Carroll |first=Robert L. |title=Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution |year=1988 |publisher=W.H. Freeman and Company |isbn=0716718227 ] and its range was extended to France in 1996 by Ortega and colleagues, who reassessed the fragmentary species "Atacisaurus crassiproratus" as an example of "Iberosuchus" (cf. "Iberosuchus", not assigned to any species).cite journal |last=Ortega |first=F. |coauthors=Buscaloni, A.D; and Gasaparini, Z. |year=1996 |title=Reinterpretation and new denomination of "Atacisaurus crassiproratus" (Middle Eocene; Issel, France) as cf. "Iberosuchus" (Crocodylomorpha, Metasuchia) |journal=Geobios |volume=29 |pages=353–364 |doi=10.1016/S0016-6995(96)80037-4 ] "Iberosuchus" was a carnivore, but unlike modern crocodilians, sebecosuchids are regarded as terrestrial, not aquatic.

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