Asiatosuchus
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Asiatosuchus is an extinct genus of crocodyloid crocodilians that lived in Eurasia during the Paleogene. Many Paleogene crocodilians from Europe and Asia have been attributed to Asiatosuchus since the
"Asiatosuchus" germanicus skull
"A." germanicus hind leg and tail
"A." depressifrons skull
Snout
Messel Pit
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The Messel Pit is a fossil preservation site in Hesse, central Germany, dated to the Eocene epoch. The fossil-bearing rock unit is a geologic formation named the Messel Formation; its geographic range
Asiatosuchus
…were first described from Germany and France in 1966 and placed in a new species of Asiatosuchus, A. germanicus. The German remains came from the Messel Pit quarry, a fossil site that has preserved many forms of life that inhabited a series of anoxic lakes and surrounding subtropical forests during the…
Weathered bituminous shale of the Messel Formation
Grube Messel, Weltnaturerbe panoramio
Outcrop of the Messel oil shale near the center of the pit
A fossil of the primitive mammal Kopidodon, showing outline of fur