Libycosuchus

Libycosuchus

Taxobox
name = "Libycosuchus"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
unranked_ordo = Mesoeucrocodylia
subordo = ?Notosuchia
familia = Libycosuchidae
genus = "Libycosuchus"
genus_authority = Stromer, 1914
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "L. brevirostris" Stromer, 1914(type)

"Libycosuchus" is an extinct genus of North African crocodylomorph possibly related to "Notosuchus". It was terrestrial, living approximately 95 million years ago in the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous. Fossil remains have been found in the Baharije Formation in Egypt, making it contemporaneous with the crocodilian "Stomatosuchus", and dinosaurs "Spinosaurus" and "Rugops".

References

* Buffetaut, E. 1982. Radiation évolutive, paléoécologie et biogéographie des Crocodiliens mésosuchienes. "Mémoires Societé Geologique de France" 142: 1–88.


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