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Sarcosuchus ( /ˌsɑrkɵˈsuːkəs/; meaning "flesh crocodile"), commonly called SuperCroc, is an extinct genus of crocodyliform and distant relative of the crocodile that lived 112 million years ago. It dates from the early Cretaceous Period of what is now Africa and South America and is one of the largest crocodile-like reptiles that ever lived. It was almost twice as long as the modern saltwater crocodile and weighed approximately 8 tonnes.
The first remains were discovered during several expeditions lead by the French paleontologist Albert-Félix de Lapparent, spanning from 1946 to 1959 in the Sahara Desert, they were fragments of the skull, vertebrae, teeth and scutes, subsequently in 1964 an almost complete skull was found in Niger by the French CEA but it wasn't until 1997 and 2000 that most of its anatomy became known to science, when an expedition lead by the American paleontologist Paul Sereno discovered half a dozen new specimens, including one with about half the skeleton intact and most of the spine.