Iberosuchus

Iberosuchus Temporal range: Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Crocodylomorpha
Suborder:	†Notosuchia
Branch:	†Sebecosuchia
Clade:	†Sebecia
Family:	†Iberosuchidae Antunes, 1975
Genus:	†Iberosuchus Antunes, 1975
Type species
†Iberosuchus macrodon Antunes, 1975
Synonyms
Atacisaurus Astre, 1931 Isselosaurus Filhol, 1888

Iberosuchus (meaning "Iberian crocodile") is an extinct genus of sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian from the Eocene of western Europe. It was described in 1975 by Antunes from remains from Portugal as a sebecosuchian crocodilian. The type species is I. macrodon.^[1] It was reclassified as a baurusuchid by Robert Carroll in 1988,^[2] and its range was extended to France in 1996 by Ortega and colleagues, who reassessed the fragmentary species Atacisaurus crassiproratus as an example of Iberosuchus (cf. Iberosuchus, not assigned to any species).^[3] Iberosuchus was a carnivore, but unlike modern crocodilians, sebecosuchians are regarded as terrestrial, not aquatic.

References

1. Antunes, M.T. (1975). "Iberosuchus, crocodile Sebecosuchien nouveau, l’Eocène ibérique au nord de la Chaîne central, et l’origine du canyon de Nazaré". Comunicaçoes dos Servicos Geologicos de Portugal (in Portuguese) 59: 285–330.
2. Carroll, Robert L. (1988). Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. W.H. Freeman and Company. ISBN 0-7167-1822-7.
3. Ortega, F.; Buscaloni, A.D; Gasaparini, Z. (1996). "Reinterpretation and new denomination of Atacisaurus crassiproratus (Middle Eocene; Issel, France) as cf. Iberosuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Metasuchia)". Geobios 29 (3): 353–364. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(96)80037-4.