Name:
Agaresuchus.
Phonetic: Ah-gah-re-soo-kus.
Named By: I. Narv�ez, C. A. Brochu, F.
Escaso, A. Perez-Garc�a & F. Ortega - 2016.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Crocodylia.
Species: A. fontisensis
(type), A. subjuniperus.
Diet: Carnivore/Piscivore.
Size: Skull roughly about 36 centimetres long. Total
body length over 2 metres.
Known locations: Spain - Conqu�s Formation.
Time period: Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Skulls and jaws.
Described
in 2016 on the basis of two skulls and jaws, Agaresuchus
fontisensis was a crocodile
that lived in Spain during the late
Cretaceous. Additionally a second species originally named as a
species of Allodaposuchus,
A. subjuniperus was
also re-described as
belonging to the genus in 2016.
Further reading
- The eusuchian crocodylomorph Allodaposuchus subjuniperus
sp.
nov., a new species from the latest Cretaceous (upper
Maastrichtian) of Spain. Historical Biology 26(1):91-109.
- E. Pu�rtolas-Pascual, J. I. Canudo & M.
Moreno-Azanza - 2013.
- New Spanish Late Cretaceous eusuchian reveals the synchronic and
sympatric presence of two allodaposuchids. - Cretaceous Research
65:112-125. - I. Narv�ez, C. A. Brochu, F. Escaso,
A. Perez-Garc�a & F. Ortega - 2016.