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| Notosuchia Fossil range: Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous |
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Genera
Notosuchia is a suborder of Mesoeucrocodylia that lived during the Cretaceous. It was a clade of terrestrial crocodilians that evolved a range of feeding behaviours, including: herbivory (Chimaerasuchus), terrestrial hypercarnivory (Baurusuchus), and omnivory (Simosuchus).
The evolutionary interrelationships of Notosuchia are in flux, but the following genera are generally considered notosuchians:
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| Valid. | Late Cretaceous | A recently discovered notosuchian from Brazil. The genus name was derived from the Adamantina Formation where its remains were found. Its skull was short, with large eye sockets, and jaws whose mechanics and tooth morphology suggest a wholly carnivorous diet. | ||||
| Valid. | Early Cretaceous. | Anatosuchus was a small notosuchian from Niger, named after its duck-like snout. It reached an adult length of under a metre. | ||||
| Valid. | Late Cretaceous. | |||||
| Valid. | Early Cretaceous. | Asia. | ||||
| Valid. | Late Cretaceous. | South America. | ||||
| Valid. | Early Cretaceous. | Africa. | ||||
| Valid. | Late Cretaceous. | South America. | ||||
| Valid. | Late Cretaceous. | South America. | ||||
| Valid. | Late Cretaceous. | Africa. | ||||
| Valid. | Late Cretaceous. | South America. |
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