Stratiotosuchus
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Stratiotosuchus (from Greek, στρατιώτης (stratiōtēs, "soldier") and σοῦχος (suchos, "crocodile")) is an extinct genus of baurusuchid mesoeucrocodylian from the Adamantina Formation in Brazil. It lived during the Late Cretaceous.[1][2] The first fossils were found in the 1980s, and the type species Stratiotosuchus maxhechti was named in 2001.[1] A hyperpredator,[2] it and other baurusuchids may have filled niches occupied elsewhere by theropod dinosaurs.[3][4]
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Stratiotosuchus | |
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Life restoration of Stratiotosuchus maxhechti | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Clade: | †Notosuchia |
Clade: | †Sebecosuchia |
Family: | †Baurusuchidae |
Subfamily: | †Baurusuchinae |
Genus: | †Stratiotosuchus Campos et al., 2001 |
Type species | |
†Stratiotosuchus maxhechti Campos et al., 2001 |
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