Name:
Rugosuchus.
Phonetic: Ru-go-su-kuss.
Named By: X.-C. Wu, Z.-W. Cheng &
A. P. Russell - 2001.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Crocodylomorpha, Eusuchia.
Species: R. nonganensis
(type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Skull 28 centimetres long.
Known locations: China - Nenjiang Formation.
Time period: Turonian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Skull and partial post
cranial skeletal remains.
Rugosuchus is a genus of crocodile the lived in China during the early half of the Late Cretaceous.
Further reading
- Cranial anatomy of a new crocodyliform (Archosauria:
Crocodylomorpha) from the Lower Cretaceous of Song-Liao Plain,
northeastern China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
38:1653-1663. - X.-C. Wu, Z.-W. Cheng & A. P.
Russell - 2001.