Sarcosuchus
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Sarcosuchus, from Ancient Greek σάρξ, meaning "flesh", and Σοῦχος, meaning "Sobek", is a genus of crocodyliform that lived during the Early Cretaceous in North Africa and Brazil. The genus was first d
Museum of Natural History Sarcosuchus
Life restoration of Sarcosuchus imperator
Reconstructed S. imperator skeleton from behind at the Indianapolis Children's Museum
An incomplete S. imperator skull at the University of Chicago
Crocodylomorpha
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Crocodylomorpha is a group of pseudosuchian archosaurs that includes the crocodilians and their extinct relatives. They were the only members of Pseudosuchia to survive the end-Triassic extinction. Ex
Sarcosuchus
…the extinct family Pholidosauridae, a clade of largely aquatic neosuchians distantly related to living crocodylians. S. imperator is one of the biggest crocodylomorphs known, with fully grown individuals estimated to have reached up to 9 to 9.5 m (29.5 to 31.2 ft) in total length and 3.45 to 4.3 metric tons (3.80 to…
Life restoration of Hesperosuchus from the Late Triassic (Carnian) of North America, an early branching, so-called "sphenosuchian" crocodylomorph
Life restoration of basal crocodylomorph Galahadosuchus.