Sahitisuchus is an extinct genus of sebecid mesoeucrocodylian known from Rio de Janeiro State of southeastern Brazil. It contains a single species, Sahitisuchus fluminensis. It is a terrestrial sebecid, although it may also have adopted a semi-aquatic lifestyle to some degree, most probably coexisting with the semi-aquatic alligatorid Eocaiman itaboraiensis.
Sahitisuchus is an extinct genus of sebecid mesoeucrocodylian known from Rio de Janeiro State of southeastern Brazil. It contains a single species, Sahitisuchus fluminensis. It is a terrestrial sebecid, although it may also have adopted a semi-aquatic lifestyle to some degree, most probably coexisting with the semi-aquatic alligatorid Eocaiman itaboraiensis.
== Discovery == thumb|left|Location and lithochronoestratigraphic column of the Itaboraí Basin Sahitisuchus was named by Alexander W. A. Kellner, André E. P. Pinheiro and Diogenes A. Campos in 2014 and the type species is Sahitisuchus fluminensis. The generic name honors the Xavante people, one of the indigenous Brazilian inhabitants. It is derived from sahi ti, meaning "to be angry" or "to be brave" in Xavante language, alluding at warriors, and suchus, Latinized from the Greek souchos, an Egyptian crocodile god. The specific name, fluminensis, is a latinization of fluminense, a designation of citizens born in the Rio de Janeiro State.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).