Anatosuchus

Anatosuchus
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Skeleton
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Crocodyliformes
Clade: Notosuchia
Family: Uruguaysuchidae
Genus: Anatosuchus
Sereno et al., 2003
Species
  • A. minor Sereno et al., 2003 (type)

Anatosuchus ("duck crocodile", the name from the Latin anas ("duck") and the Greek souchos ("crocodile"), for the broad, duck-like snout) is an extinct genus of notosuchian crocodyliforms discovered in Gadoufaoua, Niger, and described by a team of palaeontologists led by the American Paul Sereno in 2003, in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.[1] Its duck-like snout coincidentally makes it resemble a crocoduck, an imagined hybrid animal with the head of a crocodile and the body of a duck.[2][3]

  1. ^ Sereno PC, Sidor CA, Larsson HC, Gado B (2003). "A new notosuchian from the Early Cretaceous of Niger". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 23: 477–482. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2003)023[0477:ANNFTE]2.0.CO;2 – via ResearchGate.
  2. ^ "BoarCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc, DuckCroc and PancakeCroc". Archived from the original on 2010-01-10.
  3. ^ "The Crocoduck!". 26 November 2009.