Libycosuchus
Extinct genus of reptiles
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Libycosuchus is an extinct genus of North African crocodyliform possibly related to Notosuchus;[1][2] it is part of the monotypic Libycosuchidae[3] and Libycosuchinae.[4] It was terrestrial, living approximately 95 million years ago in the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous. Fossil remains have been found in the Bahariya Formation in Egypt,[5] making it contemporaneous with the crocodilian Stomatosuchus, and dinosaurs, including the famous Spinosaurus.[1]
| Libycosuchus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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| Holotype skull and jaw | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | †Notosuchia |
| Clade: | †Eunotosuchia |
| Genus: | †Libycosuchus Stromer 1914 |
| Species: | †L. brevirostris |
| Binomial name | |
| †Libycosuchus brevirostris Stromer, 1914 | |
| Synonyms[citation needed] | |
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Discovery and naming
The holotype was discovered during the early 1910s by Richard Markgraf, and the type species, L. brevirostis, was named in 1914[6] and described in 1915.[5]
It was one of the few fossils described by Ernst Stromer that wasn't destroyed by the Royal Air Force during the bombing of Munich in 1944.[7]