Iberosuchus
Sign in to saveIberosuchus (meaning "Iberian crocodile") is a genus of extinct sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian found in Western Europe from the Eocene. Remains from Portugal was described in 1975 by Antunes as a sebecosuchian crocodilian. This genus has one species: I. macrodon (meaning "large toothed). Iberosuchus was a carnivore. Unlike the crocodilians today, they were not aquatic but were instead terrestrial.
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- 44000000-0
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- 37000000-0
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18 sectionsContents
- History and discovery
- Description
- Cranial fossils
- Premaxilla
- Maxilla
- Nasal
- Postorbital
- Mandible
- Teeth
- Osteoderm
- Palaeobiology
- Palaeoecology
- Phylogeny
- Geology and paleoenvironment
- Portugal
- Spain
- France
- References
Iberosuchus (meaning "Iberian crocodile") is a genus of extinct sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian found in Western Europe from the Eocene. Remains from Portugal was described in 1975 by Antunes as a sebecosuchian crocodilian. This genus has one species: I. macrodon (meaning "large toothed). Iberosuchus was a carnivore. Unlike the crocodilians today, they were not aquatic but were instead terrestrial.
The first of its fossils were cranial remains found in Portugal, and later more fossils were found in France and Spain. They are only known from very fragmentary fossils, elements of the skull, dentary, teeth and osteoderm.