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PEPESUCHUS
(peh-pey-soo-kus)
meaning: "Pepe's crocodile, after Jose Martin Suarez whose nickname was 'Pepe'"
Named By: Diogenes A. Campos, Gustavo R. Oliveira, Rodrigo G. Figueiredo, Douglas Riff, Sergio A.K. Azevedo, Luciana B. Carvalho & Alexander W.A. Kellner in 2011
Time Period: Campanian-Maastrichtian~84.9.0 Ma
Location: Brazil - Presidente Prudente Formation
Size: Unavaialable
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Fossil remains of two individuals including complete skulls and one complete skeleton
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Crocodylomorpha | Peirosauridae |
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Pepesuchus is an extinct genus of carnivorous metasuchian from the Late Cretaceous period. It is a peirosaurid which lived during the Campanian and Maastrichtian stages of the Late Cretaceous in what is now state of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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