Libycosuchus

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Extinct genus of reptiles

title: "Libycosuchus" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["notosuchia", "prehistoric-pseudosuchian-genera", "late-cretaceous-crocodylomorphs-of-africa", "terrestrial-crocodylomorphs", "bahariya-formation", "cenomanian-genera"] description: "Extinct genus of reptiles" topic_path: "technology/web" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libycosuchus" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Extinct genus of reptiles ::

| image = Libycosuchus brevirostris.jpg | image_alt = | image_caption = Holotype skull and jaw | fossil_range = Late Cretaceous, | extinct = yes | genus = Libycosuchus | species = brevirostris | display_parents = 3 | authority = Stromer, 1914 | parent_authority = Stromer 1914 | synonyms = *Libycosuchus Stromer, 1915 (preoccupied)

  • Lybicosuchus Nascimento and Zaher, 2011 (sic) | synonyms_ref =

Libycosuchus is an extinct genus of North African crocodyliform possibly related to Notosuchus; it is part of the monotypic Libycosuchidae and Libycosuchinae. It was terrestrial, living approximately 95 million years ago in the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous. Fossil remains have been found in the Bahariya Formation in Egypt, making it contemporaneous with the crocodilian Stomatosuchus, and dinosaurs, including the famous Spinosaurus.

Discovery and naming

The holotype was discovered during the early 1910s by Richard Markgraf, and the type species, L. brevirostis, was named in 1914 and described in 1915.

It was one of the few fossils described by Ernst Stromer that wasn't destroyed by the Royal Air Force during the bombing of Munich in 1944.

References

References

  1. Buffetaut, E. 1982. Radiation évolutive, paléoécologie et biogéographie des Crocodiliens mésosuchienes. ''Mémoires Societé Geologique de France'' '''142''': 1–88.
  2. P. M. Nascimento and H. Zaher. 2011. The skull of the Upper Cretaceous baurusuchid crocodile ''[[Baurusuchus. Baurusuchus alberoi]]'' Nascimento & Zaher 2010, and its phylogenetic affinities. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163:S116-S131
  3. E. Stromer. 1933. Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wüsten Ägyptens. II. Wirbeltierreste der Baharîje-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman). 12. Die procölen Crocodilia. [Results of the expeditions of Professor E. Stromer in the Egyptian deserts. II. Vertebrate animal remains from the Baharîje bed (lowest Cenomanian). 12. The procoelous Crocodilia.]. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung, Neue Folge 15:1–31
  4. B. F. Nopcsa. 1928. The genera of reptiles. Palaeobiologica 1:163–188
  5. Stromer (1914), p. 28 and 29, fn. 1
  6. Original citation: Stromer, E. (1915). Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wüsten Ägyptens. II. Wirbeltier-Reste der Baharîje-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman). 3. Das Original des Theropoden ''[[Spinosaurus aegyptiacus]]'' nov. gen., nov. spec. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-physikalische Klasse 28(3):1–32.
  7. (September 2004). "New material of Libycosuchus brevirostris from the Cenomanian Bahariya Formation of Egypt". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

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