Prehistoric Crocodiles

[Ngala]

This is the monography by Paul Sereno & Hans Larsson:

Cretaceous Crocodyliforms from the Sahara

Abstract:
"Diverse crocodyliforms have been discovered in recent years in Cretaceous rocks on southern landmasses formerly composing Gondwana.  We report here on six species from the Sahara with an array of trophic adaptations that significantly deepen our current understanding of African crocodyliform diversity during the Cretaceous period.  We describe two of these species (Anatosuchus minor, Araripesuchus wegeneri) from nearly complete skulls and partial articulated skeletons from the Lower Cretaceous Elrhaz Formation (Aptian-Albian) of Niger. The remaining four species (Araripesuchus rattoides sp. n., Kaprosuchus saharicus gen. n. sp. n., Laganosuchus thaumastos gen. n. sp. n., Laganosuchus maghrebensis gen. n. sp. n.) come from contemporaneous Upper Cretaceous formations (Cenomanian) in Niger and Morocco."

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Reconstruction by Todd Marshall:

Kaprosuchus saharicus

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Araripesuchus rattoides

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Araripesuchus wegeneri

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Anatosuchus minor

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Laganosuchus thaumastos

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