
Elosuchus is an extinct genus of neosuchian crocodyliform that lived during the Middle Cretaceous of what is now Africa (Niger, Morocco, and Algeria).
Elosuchus is an extinct genus of neosuchian crocodyliform that lived during the Middle Cretaceous of what is now Africa (Niger, Morocco, and Algeria).
==Description and taxonomy== thumb|Tooth of E. cherifiensis from the Max Rouger collection Elosuchus had an elongated snout like a gharial and was probably a fully aquatic animal. The type species, E. cherifiensis from Algeria and Morocco, was originally described as a species of Thoracosaurus by Lavocat, but was recognized as a genus separate from Thoracosaurus by de Broin in 2002. 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. The large skull measuring approximately long indicates a body length of up to . In 2022, the largest known premaxilla specimen was referred to the genus, suggesting a maximum skull length of .
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).