Anatosuchus
Sign in to saveAnatosuchus ("duck crocodile", the name from the Latin anas ("duck") and the Greek souchos ("crocodile"), for the broad, duck-like snout) is an extinct genus of notosuchian crocodyliforms discovered in Gadoufaoua, Niger, and described by a team of palaeontologists led by the American Paul Sereno in 2003, in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
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It sits within the topics Cretaceous animals of Africa, Early Cretaceous crocodylomorphs of Africa and Fossil taxa described in 2003.
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Parent taxon
- Uruguaysuchidae
- Image
- Anatosuchus minor.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Discovery
- Description
- Skull and jaws
- Postcranial skeleton and osteoderms
- Classification
- Palaeobiology
- References
- External links
Anatosuchus ("duck crocodile", the name from the Latin anas ("duck") and the Greek souchos ("crocodile"), for the broad, duck-like snout) is an extinct genus of notosuchian crocodyliforms discovered in Gadoufaoua, Niger, and described by a team of palaeontologists led by the American Paul Sereno in 2003, in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
==Discovery==
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