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APLESTOSUCHUS
(a-pless-toe-soo-kus)
meaning: "gluttonous crocodile"
Aplestosuchus
Named By: P. L. Godoy, F. C. Montefeltro, M. A. Norell & M. C. Langer in 2014
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, Turonian-Santonian
Location: Brazil, Sao Paulo - Adamantina Formation
Size: Roughly about 2 meters long
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Skull as well as partial articulated skeleton
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Crocodylomorpha | Notosuchia | Baurusuchidae | Baurusuchinae |
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Aplestosuchus is an extinct genus of baurusuchid mesoeucrocodylian known from the Late Cretaceous Adamantina Formation of Sao Paulo, southern Brazil. It contains a single species, Aplestosuchus sordidus. A. sordidus is represented by a single articulated and nearly complete skeleton, preserving the remains of an unidentified sphagesaurid crocodyliform in its abdominal cavity. The specimen represents direct evidence of predation between different taxa of crocodyliforms in the fossil record.

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