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SUCHOMIMUS
(su-ko-mie-mus)
meaning: "Crocodile mimic"
Suchomimus
Named By: Paul Sereno et al. in 1998
Time Period: Early Cretaceous, 125-112 Ma
Location: Niger - Elhraz Formation
Size: About 10 meters long for the holotype, though fully grown adults were likely larger
Diet: Piscivore/Carnivore
Fossil(s): Skull and partial skeleton of what is thought to be a subadult
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Spinosauridae | Baryonychinae |
Also known as: | Baryonyx tenerensis |
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Suchomimus ("crocodile mimic") is a genus of large spinosaurid dinosaur with a crocodile-like skull that lived between 125-112 million years ago, during the Aptian to early Albian stage of the Cretaceous period in Niger, Africa. The only species named in the genus is Suchomimus tenerensis.

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