Ceratosuchops
Name:
Ceratosuchops
(Horned crocodile face).
Phonetic: Se-rat-o-su-kopz.
Named By: Chris T. Barker, David W. E.
Hone, Darren Naish, Andrea Cau, Jeremy A. F. Lockwood,
Brian Foster, Claire E. Clarkin, Philipp Schneider, &
Neil J. Gostling - 2021.
Classification: Chordata, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Theropoda, Spinosauridae, Baryonychinae.
Species: C. inferodios
(type).
Diet: Piscivore/Carnivore.
Size: Uncertain due to lack of remains but roughly
estimated at the time of the description as being 8.5 meters long.
Known locations: United Kingdom, England -
Wessex Formation.
Time period: Barremian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull bones
including premaxilla, braincase, and right post orbital.
Ceratosuchops
is a genus of spinosaurid
dinosaur that lived in the British Isles
during the early Cretaceous. Ceratosuchops was
named alongside
another spinosaurid dinosaur from Britain called Riparovenator.
Further reading
- New spinosaurids from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous,
UK) and the European origins of Spinosauridae. - Scientific
Reports. 11 (1): 19340 - Chris T. Barker, David W.
E. Hone, Darren Naish, Andrea Cau, Jeremy A. F. Lockwood,
Brian Foster, Claire E. Clarkin, Philipp Schneider, &
Neil J. Gostling - 2021.
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