Genus of crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous period
Kaprosuchus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian), 95 Ma
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Holotype skull, scale bar equals 10 cm
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Clade:
Archosauria
Clade:
Pseudosuchia
Clade:
Crocodylomorpha
Clade:
Crocodyliformes
Family:
†Mahajangasuchidae
Genus:
†Kaprosuchus Sereno and Larsson, 2009[1]
Type species
†Kaprosuchus saharicus
Sereno and Larsson, 2009
Kaprosuchus is an extinct genus of mahajangasuchid crocodyliform. It is known from a single nearly complete skull collected from the Upper Cretaceous Echkar Formation of Niger. The name means "boar crocodile" from the Greek κάπρος, kapros ("boar") and σοῦχος, soukhos ("crocodile") in reference to its unusually large caniniform teeth which resemble those of a boar.[1] It has been nicknamed "BoarCroc" by Paul Sereno and Hans Larsson, who first described the genus in a monograph published in ZooKeys in 2009 along with other Saharan crocodyliformes such as Anatosuchus and Laganosuchus.[2] The type species is K. saharicus.
^ abSereno, Paul; Larsson, Hans (2009-11-19). "Cretaceous Crocodyliforms from the Sahara". ZooKeys (28): 1–143. doi:10.3897/zookeys.28.325. ISSN 1313-2970.
^"3 new ancient crocodile species fossils found". Yahoo News. Associated Press. November 19, 2009. Archived from the original on November 21, 2009.
Mahajangasuchus. The snout of Kaprosuchus shows generalized proportions and the naris is positioned dorsally. In Kaprosuchus many teeth are hypertrophied...
crocodyliforms. It currently contains two genera, Mahajangasuchus and Kaprosuchus, both of which lived during the Late Cretaceous in Gondwana. It is defined...
the newly constructed family Mahajangasuchidae along with the genus Kaprosuchus by Sereno and Larrson (2009), who considered the family to be basal neosuchians...
and titanosaur, and the crocodylomorphs Fortignathus, Laganosuchus and Kaprosuchus. The specimen was described in 2004 by Paul Sereno, Jeffery Wilson and...
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like Abby, and came to learn of a Kaprosuchus that had been causing trouble, and after helping deal with the Kaprosuchus got his old job back. Connor accidentally...
within its own family, Mahajangasuchidae, along with the newly named Kaprosuchus. The following list of genera follows Martinelli et al., 2012 unless...
theropod. Elosuchus E. sp. Fortignathus F. felixi Inosaurus I. tedreftensis Kaprosuchus K. saharicus Laganosuchus L. thaumastos Lepidotes L. sp. Onchopristis...
dromaeosaurs and Dracorex, but also introduced new unique creatures, such as Kaprosuchus and the "tree creeper", a fictional arboreal dromaeosaur species. Details...
up to the fourteenth alveolus. It was described in the same paper as Kaprosuchus, Laganosuchus and Anatosuchus; the four were therefore popularized by...
from Niger Araripesuchus rattoides or RatCroc from Niger and Morocco Kaprosuchus saharicus or BoarCroc from Niger and Morocco Laganosuchus thaumastos...
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