Suchosaurus
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Suchosaurus is a dubious genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous in what is now Europe. The type species, S. cultridens, was originally described in 1841 by Richard Owe
Suchosaurus cultridens holotype tooth
1878 lithograph of the holotype tooth of S. cultridens
Original fossil elements of the holotype specimen of S. girardi (MG 324 × MNHN/UL.I.F2.176)
Reconstructed skeletal mount of Baryonyx at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo. Based on its dental characteristics, Suchosaurus has been reinterpreted as a spinosaurid, and a possible synonymy with the latter has even been suggested
Baryonyx
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Baryonyx is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived in the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous period, about 130–125 million years ago. The first skeleton was discovered in 1983 in the Smokejack
Suchosaurus
…was not formally reidentified as a spinosaurid until a 2003 publication by Angela Milner, who also considered it as a possible senior synonym of Baryonyx. This proposal was followed by several authors until 2011, when Octávio Mateus and colleagues regarded the genus as dubious due to the non-diagnostic…
Cast of the claw of the first finger which the name Baryonyx was based on, in Palais de la Découverte, Paris
Skeletal diagram of the holotype specimen (below) compared with the related genus Suchomimus
Life restoration