Full reference: F. de Lapparent de Broin. 2002. Elosuchus, a new genus of crocodile from the Lower Cretaceous of the north of Africa. Comptes Rendus Palevol 1:275-285
Parent taxon: Dyrosauroidea according to S. Jouve et al. 2021
See also Andrade et al. 2011, Bronzati et al. 2012, de Lapparent de Broin 2002, Fiorelli and Calvo 2008, Fortier et al. 2011, Jouve et al. 2006, Jouve and Jalil 2020, Martin and Buffetaut 2012, Meunier and Larsson 2016 and Souza et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Dyrosauridae, Vectisuchus
Subtaxa: Elosuchus broinae Elosuchus cherifiensis
Type: Thoracosaurus cherifiensis
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (1 collection), Morocco (4), Niger (1)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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