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Lohuecosuchus

Lohuecosuchus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Lohuecosuchus megadontos - Holotype HUE-04498 - lateral view.jpg
Skull and mandible of Lohuecosuchus megadontos.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Pseudosuchia
Order: Crocodylomorpha
Suborder: Crocodyliformes
Infraorder: Mesoeucrocodylia
Family: Allodaposuchidae
Genus: Lohuecosuchus
Narváez et al., 2015
Type species
L. megadontos
Narváez et al., 2015
Species
  • L. mechinorum Narváez et al., 2015
  • L. megadontos Narváez et al., 2015 (type)

Lohuecosuchus (Lo Hueco Crocodile) is an extinct genus of crocodyliforms related to the current crocodiles. They lived during the Upper Cretaceous (upper Campanian-Lower Maastrichtian) in what is now Spain and southern France. It is a genus closely related to Allodaposuchus, a crocodile that lived in what is now Romania.


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