Libycosuchus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
Skull and jaw
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
(unranked):
Mesoeucrocodylia
Suborder:
Notosuchia
Family:
†Libycosuchidae

Stromer, 1933
Subfamily:
†Libycosuchinae

Nopsca, 1928
Genus:
†Libycosuchus

Stromer, 1914
Binomial name
†Libycosuchus brevirostris
Stromer, 1914
Synonyms
  • Libycosuchus Stromer, 1915 (preoccupied)
  • Lybicosuchus Nascimento and Zaher, 2011 (sic)

Libycosuchus is an extinct genus of North African crocodylomorph 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]

References

  1. 1 2 Buffetaut, E. 1982. Radiation évolutive, paléoécologie et biogéographie des Crocodiliens mésosuchienes. Mémoires Societé Geologique de France 142: 1–88.
  2. ↑ P. M. Nascimento and H. Zaher. 2011. The skull of the Upper Cretaceous baurusuchid crocodile Baurusuchus alberoi Nascimento & Zaher 2010, and its phylogenetic affinities. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163:S116-S131
  3. ↑ E. Stromer. 1933. Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wüsten Ägyptens. II. Wirbeltierreste der Baharîje-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman). 12. Die procölen Crocodilia. [Results of the expeditions of Professor E. Stromer in the Egyptian deserts. II. Vertebrate animal remains from the Baharîje bed (lowest Cenomanian). 12. The procoelous Crocodilia.]. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung, Neue Folge 15:1-31
  4. ↑ B. F. Nopcsa. 1928. The genera of reptiles. Palaeobiologica 1:163-188
  5. 1 2 Original citation: Stromer, E. 1915. Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wüsten Ägyptens. II. Wirbeltier-Reste der Baharîje-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman). 3. Das Original des Theropoden Spinosaurus aegyptiacus nov. gen., nov. spec. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-physikalische Klasse 28(3):1-32.
  6. ↑ Tumarkin-Deratzian, Allison; Grandstaff, Barbara S.; Lamanna, Matthew; Smith, Joshua B. (September 2004). "New material of Libycosuchus brevirostris from the Cenomanian Bahariya Formation of Egypt". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24 (3): 123A. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  7. ↑ Stromer 1914, p. 28 and 29, fn. 1


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