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CERREJONISUCHUS
(car-re-hon-soo-kus)
meaning: "Cerrejon crocodile"
Named By: A. K. Hastings, J. I. Bloch, E. A. Cadena & C. A. Jaramillo in 2010
Time Period: Mid-Late Paleocene (Peligran-Itaboraian)~60-58 Ma
Location: Columbia - Cerrejon Formation
Size: Somewhere between 1.2 and 2.2 meters long
Diet: Carnivore/Piscivore
Fossil(s): Partial skulls, vertebrae and osteoderms
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Crocodylomorpha | Dyrosauridae |
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Cerrejonisuchus is an extinct genus of dyrosaurid crocodylomorph. It is known from a complete skull and mandible from the Cerrejon Formation in northeastern Colombia, which is Paleocene in age. Specimens belonging to Cerrejonisuchus and to several other dyrosaurids have been found from the Cerrejon open-pit coal mine in La Guajira. The length of the rostrum is only 54-59% of the total length of the skull, making the snout of Cerrejonisuchus the shortest of all dyrosaurids.

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