Kaprosuchus

Kaprosuchus is an extinct genus of mahajangasuchid crocodyliform. It is known from a single nearly complete skull collected from the Upper Cretaceous Echkar Formation of Niger. The name means "boar crocodile" from the Greekκάπρος, kapros ("boar") and σοῦχος, souchos ("crocodile") in reference to its unusually large caniniform teeth which resemble those of a boar.[1] It has been nicknamed "BoarCroc" by Paul Sereno and Hans Larsson, who first described the genus in a monograph published in ZooKeys in 2009 along with other Saharan crocodyliformes such as Anatosuchus and Laganosuchus.[2] The type species is K. saharicus.
Category:Animals
Category:Creatures
Category:Reptiles
Category:Terrestrial crocodylomorphs
Category:Late Cretaceous crocodylomorphs of Africa
Category:Late Cretaceous reptiles of Africa
Category:Fossil taxa described in 2009
Category:Notosuchians