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LOROSUCHUS
(lo-roe-soo-kus)
meaning: "Loro crocodile"
Named By: D. Pol & J. E. Powell in 2011
Time Period: Paleocene (Peligran-Riochican)~61.7-55.8 Ma
Location: Argentina, Tucuman Province - Rio Loro Formation
Size: Skull 20 centimetres long
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Compete skull, lower jaws as well as partial post cranial skeletal remains
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Crocodylomorpha | Notosuchia | Sebecosuchia | Sebecia | Sebecidae |
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Lorosuchus is an extinct genus of sebecid mesoeucrocodylian known from the Rio Loro Formation in Tucuman Province of north-western Argentina.

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