Mecistops is a genus of crocodiles, the slender-snouted crocodiles, native to sub-Saharan Africa.
Image: Crocodylus cataphractus faux gavial d'Afrique 2
Image: Mecistops leptorhynchus 2009
Slender-snouted crocodiles bear a superficial resemblance to gharials, which also have a very slender snout
Image: Faux Gavial (9398288667)
Euthecodon is an extinct genus of long-snouted crocodile. It was common throughout much of Africa during the Neogene, with fossils being especially common in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Libya. Although superficially resembling that of gharials, the long snout was a trait developed independently from that of other crocodilians and suggests a diet of primarily fish. Euthecodon coexisted with a wide range of other crocodiles in the areas it inhabited before eventually going extinct during the Pleistocene.
Modern gharials basking alongside the generalist Mugger crocodile
Image: Pantserkrokodil (14783902910)
Image: Stumpfkrokodil Bioparc Fuengirola 01 2014