Named By: | A. W. A. Kellner in 1987 |
Time Period: | Early Cretaceous |
Location: | Brazil - Santana Formation |
Size: | About 1.5 meters long |
Diet: | Carnivore/Piscivore |
Fossil(s): | Single individual |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Crocodylomorpha | Mesoeucrocodylia | Trematochampsidae | |
Caririsuchus is an extinct genus of trematochampsid crocodylomorph. Fossils have been found from the Romualdo Member of the Santana Formation in northeastern Brazil, dating back to the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous. It was about 1.5m in length.