| Anatosuchus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
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Scientific classification 
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| 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 |
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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]
- ^ 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.
- ^ "BoarCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc, DuckCroc and PancakeCroc". Archived from the original on 2010-01-10.
- ^ "The Crocoduck!". 26 November 2009.