Libycosuchus

{{short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}}

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| image = Libycosuchus brevirostris.jpg

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| image_caption = Holotype skull and jaw

| fossil_range = Late Cretaceous, {{fossilrange|95}}

| extinct = yes

| genus = Libycosuchus

| species = brevirostris

| display_parents = 3

| authority = Stromer, 1914

| parent_authority = Stromer 1914

| synonyms = *Libycosuchus Stromer, 1915 (preoccupied)

• Lybicosuchus Nascimento and Zaher, 2011 (sic)

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Libycosuchus is an extinct genus of North African crocodyliform possibly related to Notosuchus;Buffetaut, E. 1982. Radiation évolutive, paléoécologie et biogéographie des Crocodiliens mésosuchienes. Mémoires Societé Geologique de France 142: 1–88.P. M. Nascimento and H. Zaher. 2011. The skull of the Upper Cretaceous baurusuchid crocodile Baurusuchus alberoi Nascimento & Zaher 2010, and its phylogenetic affinities. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163:S116-S131 it is part of the monotypic LibycosuchidaeE. Stromer. 1933. Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wüsten Ägyptens. II. Wirbeltierreste der Baharîje-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman). 12. Die procölen Crocodilia. [Results of the expeditions of Professor E. Stromer in the Egyptian deserts. II. Vertebrate animal remains from the Baharîje bed (lowest Cenomanian). 12. The procoelous Crocodilia.]. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung, Neue Folge 15:1–31 and Libycosuchinae.B. F. Nopcsa. 1928. The genera of reptiles. Palaeobiologica 1:163–188 It was terrestrial, living approximately 95 million years ago in the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous. Fossil remains have been found in the Bahariya Formation in Egypt, making it contemporaneous with the crocodilian Stomatosuchus, and dinosaurs, including the famous Spinosaurus.