Fortignathus is an extinct genus of dyrosaurid[1] or peirosaurid[2] crocodylomorph known from the Late Cretaceous Echkar Formation in Niger. It contains a single species, Fortignathus felixi, which was originally named as a species of Elosuchus in 2002.[1][3]
^ abYoung, Mark T.; Hastings, Alexander K.; Allain, Ronan; Smith, Thomas J. (July 2016). "Revision of the enigmatic crocodyliform Elosuchus felixi de Lapparent de Broin, 2002 from the Lower-Upper Cretaceous boundary of Niger: potential evidence for an early origin of the clade Dyrosauridae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi:10.1111/zoj.12452. ISSN 0024-4082.
^Jouve, Stéphane; de Muizon, Christian; Cespedes-Paz, Ricardo; Sossa-Soruco, Víctor; Knoll, Stephane (2020-10-19). "The longirostrine crocodyliforms from Bolivia and their evolution through the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 192 (2): 475–509. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa081. ISSN 0024-4082.
^de Broin, F. de L., (2002), Elosuchus, a new genus of crocodile from the Lower Cretaceous of the North of Africa: C. R. Palevol, v. 1, p. 275-285.
Fortignathus is an extinct genus of dyrosaurid or peirosaurid crocodylomorph known from the Late Cretaceous Echkar Formation in Niger. It contains a single...
(=Theropoda indet.) Likely an indeterminate theropod. Elosuchus E. sp. Fortignathus F. felixi Inosaurus I. tedreftensis Kaprosuchus K. saharicus Laganosuchus...
ingens Rebbachisaurus tamesnensis Aegyptosaurus baharijensis Spinosaurus? Fortignathus felixi List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations List of fossiliferous...
Spinosaurus, an unnamed rebbachisaurid and titanosaur, and the crocodylomorphs Fortignathus, Laganosuchus and Kaprosuchus. The specimen was described in 2004 by...
Elosuchus felixi, described from the Echkar Formation of Niger, was renamed Fortignathus in 2016 and is either a dyrosaurid relative or a non-hyposaurine dyrosaurid...
dyrosaurids, shown below. Note the former dyrosaurids Sabinosuchus and Fortignathus are recovered as a pholidosaurid and a peirosaurid, respectively. Evidence...