Libycosuchus Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Clade: | † Notosuchia |
(unranked): | † Eunotosuchia |
Genus: | †
Libycosuchus Stromer 1914 |
Species: | †L. brevirostris
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Binomial name | |
†Libycosuchus brevirostris
Stromer, 1914
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Synonyms[ citation needed] | |
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Libycosuchus is an extinct genus of North African crocodyliform possibly related to Notosuchus; [1] [2] it is part of the monotypic Libycosuchidae [3] and Libycosuchinae. [4] It was terrestrial, living approximately 95 million years ago in the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous. Fossil remains have been found in the Bahariya Formation in Egypt, [5] making it contemporaneous with the crocodilian Stomatosuchus, and dinosaurs, including Spinosaurus. [1] It was one of the few fossils discovered by Ernst Stromer that wasn't destroyed by the Royal Air Force during the bombing of Munich in 1944. [6] The type species, L. brevirostis, was named in 1914 [7] and described in 1915. [5]
Libycosuchus Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous,
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skull and jaw | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Clade: | † Notosuchia |
(unranked): | † Eunotosuchia |
Genus: | †
Libycosuchus Stromer 1914 |
Species: | †L. brevirostris
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Binomial name | |
†Libycosuchus brevirostris
Stromer, 1914
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Synonyms[ citation needed] | |
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Libycosuchus is an extinct genus of North African crocodyliform possibly related to Notosuchus; [1] [2] it is part of the monotypic Libycosuchidae [3] and Libycosuchinae. [4] It was terrestrial, living approximately 95 million years ago in the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous. Fossil remains have been found in the Bahariya Formation in Egypt, [5] making it contemporaneous with the crocodilian Stomatosuchus, and dinosaurs, including Spinosaurus. [1] It was one of the few fossils discovered by Ernst Stromer that wasn't destroyed by the Royal Air Force during the bombing of Munich in 1944. [6] The type species, L. brevirostis, was named in 1914 [7] and described in 1915. [5]