Sabresuchus

Sabresuchus
Temporal range: Cretaceous
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Family: †Paralligatoridae
Genus: †
Tennant et al., 2016
Species
  • S. ibericus (Brinkmann, 1992) (type)
  • S. sympiestodon (Martin et al., 2010)

Sabresuchus is an extinct genus of neosuchian crocodyliform from the Cretaceous of Europe.[1] The name is derived from 'Sabre' in reference to the enlarged and curved fifth maxillary tooth, and 'suchus' from the Ancient Greek for crocodile.[2]

Taxonomy

Two valid species are currently recognized: Sabresuchus ibericus from eastern Spain, and Sabresuchus sympiestodon from Romania,.[2] Both species were previously assigned under the genus Theriosuchus, as T. ibericus[3] and T. sympiestodon[4] respectively. A 2016 cladistic analysis recovered it as a neosuchian more closely related to members of the family Paralligatoridae than to atoposaurids.[2]

References

  1. ^ "†Sabresuchus Tennant et al. 2016". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  2. ^ a b c Tennant, Jonathan P.; Mannion, Philip D.; Upchurch, Paul (2016). "Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 177 (4): 854–936. doi:10.1111/zoj.12400. hdl:10044/1/29026.
  3. ^ Brinkmann, W. (1992). "Die Krokodilier-Fauna aus der Unter-Kreide (Ober-Barremium) von Uña (Provinz Cuenca, Spanien)". Berliner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen. Reihe E (Paläobiologie). 5: 1–123.
  4. ^ Martin, Jeremy E.; Rabi, Márton; Csiki, Zoltán (2010). "Survival of Theriosuchus (Mesoeucrocodylia: Atoposauridae) in a Late Cretaceous archipelago: a new species from the Maastrichtian of Romania". Naturwissenschaften. 97 (9): 845–854. Bibcode:2010NW.....97..845M. doi:10.1007/s00114-010-0702-y. PMID 20711558. S2CID 32176974.


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