Name:
Albertosuchus.
Phonetic: Al-bert-o-su-kus.
Named By: X.-C. Wu & D. B. Brinkman
- 2015.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Crocodylomorpha, Crocodilia, Crocodyloidea.
Species: A. knudsenii
(type).
Diet: Carnivore/Piscivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Canada, Alberta - Scollard
Formation.
Time period: Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and associated
post cranial remains.
Albertosuchus is a genus of crocodile that lived in Canada during the late Cretaceous, and which is noted for being similar to Arenysuchus, which is known from similarly aged fossil bearing deposits in Spain. Albertosuchus should not be confused with Albertosaurus, a tyrannosaurid dinosaur of the late Cretaceous, though it is not impossible that the two may have encountered one another.
Further reading
- A new crocodylian (Eusuchia) from the uppermost Cretaceous of
Alberta, Canada. - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
52:590-607. - X.-C. Wu & D. B. Brinkman -
2015.