Iberosuchus
Extinct genus of reptiles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Iberosuchus (meaning "Iberian crocodile") is a genus of extinct sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian found in Western Europe from the Eocene. Remains from Portugal was described in 1975 by Antunes as a sebecosuchian crocodilian. This genus has one species: I. macrodon[1] (meaning "large toothed). Iberosuchus was a carnivore, unlike the crocodilians today, they are not aquatic and are instead terrestrial.
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Iberosuchus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Clade: | †Notosuchia |
Clade: | †Sebecosuchia |
Clade: | †Sebecia |
Family: | †Iberosuchidae |
Genus: | †Iberosuchus Antunes, 1975 |
Type species | |
†Iberosuchus macrodon Antunes, 1975 |
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The first of its fossils were cranial remains found in Portugal, and later more fossils were found in France and Spain. They are only known from very fragmentary fossils, elements of the skull, dentary, teeth and osteoderm.