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Iberosuchus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Branch
  
†Sebecosuchia

Phylum
  
Chordata

Class
  
Reptilia

Clade
  
†Sebecia

Rank
  
Genus

Iberosuchus

Family
  
†Iberosuchidae Antunes, 1975

Similar
  
Bergisuchus, Bretesuchus, Sebecosuchia, Comahuesuchus, Sebecus

Iberosuchus (meaning "Iberian crocodile") is an extinct genus of sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian from the Eocene of western Europe. It was described in 1975 by Antunes from remains from Portugal as a sebecosuchian crocodilian. The type species is I. macrodon. It was reclassified as a baurusuchid by Robert Carroll in 1988, and its range was extended to France in 1996 by Ortega and colleagues, who reassessed the fragmentary species Atacisaurus crassiproratus as an example of Iberosuchus (cf. Iberosuchus, not assigned to any species). Iberosuchus was a carnivore, but unlike modern crocodilians, sebecosuchians are regarded as terrestrial, not aquatic.

References

Iberosuchus Wikipedia


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