Kaprosuchus
Sign in to saveKaprosuchus 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 , kapros ("boar") and , soukhos ("crocodile") in reference to its unusually large caniniform teeth which resemble those of a boar. 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 crocodyliforms such as Anatosuchus and Laganosuchus. The type species is K. saha
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- Parent taxon
- Mahajangasuchidae
- Named after
- Sus scrofa
- Image
- Kaprosuchus.jpg
- Length
- 6
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- start time
- 95000000-0
- Commons category
- Kaprosuchus
- taxon name
- Kaprosuchus
- taxon rank
- genus
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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 , kapros ("boar") and , soukhos ("crocodile") in reference to its unusually large caniniform teeth which resemble those of a boar. 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 crocodyliforms such as Anatosuchus and Laganosuchus. The type species is K. saharicus.
==Description==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kaprosuchus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.