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 | |
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.