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CARIRISUCHUS
(ca-re-re-soo-kus)
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 |
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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.

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