Pepesuchus
Name:
Pepesuchus
(Pepe’s crocodile, after Jos� Martin Su�rez whose nickname was
‘Pepe’).
Phonetic: Peh-pey-soo-kus.
Named By: Diogenes A. Campos, Gustavo R.
Oliveira, Rodrigo G. Figueiredo, Douglas Riff, Sergio A.K.
Azevedo, Luciana B. Carvalho & Alexander W.A. Kellner
- 2011.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Crocodylomorpha, Peirosauridae.
Species: P. deiseae (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Unavaialable.
Known locations: Brazil - Presidente Prudente
Formation.
Time period: Campanian/Maastrichtian of the
Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Fossil remains of two
individuals including complete skulls and one complete skeleton.
Pepesuchus is a genus of metasuchian that lived in what is now Brazil during the late Cretaceous. Pepesuchus is noted for having ziphodont teeth that laterally compressed to be blade like with serrated edges. This almost certainly means that Pepesuchus was a carnivore that was well adapted to slicing through the flesh of other large animals.
Further reading
- On a new peirosaurid crocodyliform from the Upper Cretaceous,
Bauru Group, southeastern Brazil - Anais da Academia Brasileira
de Ci�ncias 83 (1): 317–327 - Diogenes A. Campos,
Gustavo R. Oliveira, Rodrigo G. Figueiredo, Douglas Riff,
Sergio A.K. Azevedo, Luciana B. Carvalho & Alexander
W.A. Kellner - 2011.
- New material of Pepesuchus (Crocodyliformes; Mesoeucrocodylia) from
the Bauru Group: implications about its phylogeny and the age of the
Adamantina Formation. - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185.
312–334. Accessed 2019-02-18. - Caio Fabricio Cezar Geroto &
Reinaldo J. Bertini - 2019.
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