page_title: Kentisuchus
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Kentisuchus / Species
caption_attribution_description: Crocodilus champsoïdes, half the nat. size. Fig. 1. Upper view of the skull. Fig. 2. Under view of the fore part of ditto. Fig. 3. Side view of ditto. Fig. 4. The left half of the back part of the skull of ditto, nat. size. Fig. 5. The point of an anterior young tooth coming into place, nat. size. Fig. 6. Half of the crown of one of the large conical teeth, nat. size. Fig. 7. One of the shorter and more obtuse posterior teeth, nat. size.
context_page_description: Kentisuchus is an extinct genus of tomistomine crocodylian. It is considered one of the most basal members of the subfamily. Fossils have been found from England and France that date back to the early Eocene. The genus has also been recorded from Ukraine, but it unclear whether specimens from Ukraine are referable to Kentisuchus.
context_section_description: The genus Kentisuchus was erected by Charles Mook in 1955 for the basal tomistomine "Crocodylus" toliapicus, described by Richard Owen, in 1849. William Buckland named "Crocodylus" spenceri on the basis of a partial skull found from the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, England. In 1888 Richard Lydekker considered "C." toliapicus synonymous with "C." champsoides and "C." arduini, named by De Zigno, and reapplied the name "C." spenceri to all of these species.
  The genus name Kentisuchus was constructed only after it was realized that these tomistomine specimens were clearly distinct from the genus Crocodylus and that some specimens originally assigned to "C." spenceri belonged to entirely different genera and species. "C." arduini was reassigned to the new genus Megadontosuchus in the same paper that Kentisuchus was first described in. A 2007 review of European Eocene tomistomines synonymized K. toliapicus and K. champsoides with K. spenceri.
caption: K. spenceri skull in multiple views
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