Libycosuchus

Libycosuchus

Libycosuchus Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Class:	Sauropsida
(Unranked) :	Mesoeucrocodylia
Suborder:	?Notosuchia
Family:	Libycosuchidae
Genus:	Libycosuchus Stromer, 1914
Species:	L. brevirostris Stromer, 1914(type)

Libycosuchus is an extinct genus of North African crocodylomorph possibly related to Notosuchus. It was terrestrial, living approximately 95 million years ago in the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous. Fossil remains have been found in the Baharije Formation in Egypt, making it contemporaneous with the crocodilian Stomatosuchus, and dinosaurs Spinosaurus and Rugops.

References

• Buffetaut, E. 1982. Radiation évolutive, paléoécologie et biogéographie des Crocodiliens mésosuchienes. Mémoires Societé Geologique de France 142: 1–88.