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Laganosuchus ✝

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Laganosuchus is an extinct genus of stomatosuchid crocodyliform. Fossils have been found from Niger and Morocco and date back to the Upper Cretaceous.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laganosuchus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	8624066	https://www.gbif.org/species/8624066
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	157808	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=157808

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Stomatosuchidae : Laganosuchus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Stomatosuchidae : Laganosuchus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
-	Pseudosuchia
-	Suchia	Krebs 1974
-	Paracrocodylomorpha	Parrish 1993
-	Loricata
-	Crocodylomorpha
suborder	Crocodyliformes	Hay 1930
-	Mesoeucrocodylia	Whetstone and Whybrow 1983
-	Neosuchia	Clark 1988
family	Stomatosuchidae	Stromer 1925
genus	Laganosuchus	Sereno & Larsson 2009

Scientific Name

Laganosuchus Sereno & Larsson, 2009

Name Published In

Sereno, Paul C. & Hans C. E. Larsson. 2009. Cretaceous Crocodyliforms from the Sahara. ZooKeys 28: 1-143.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Laganosuchus	genus	belongs to Stomatosuchidae	stated with evidence	Sereno and Larsson, 2009
Laganosuchus	genus	belongs to Neosuchia	stated without evidence	Bronzati et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

101 - 94 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

101 - 94 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Mesoeucrocodylia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Pseudosuchia)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. C. Sereno and H. C. E. Larsson. 2009. Cretaceous crocodyliformes from the Sahara. ZooKeys 28:1-143

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laganosuchus

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Laganosuchus maghrebensis ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Laganosuchus thaumastos ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
2009	Laganosuchus Sereno and Larsson p. 78
2012	Laganosuchus Bronzati et al.

References

Sereno P. C., Larsson H. C. E. (2009) Cretaceous crocodyliformes from the Sahara, ZooKeys 28, 1-143 doi:10.3897/zookeys.28.325

Bronzati M., Montefeltro F. C., et al (2012) A species-level supertree of Crocodyliformes, Historical Biology 24 6, 598-606

Article title: Cretaceous crocodyliforms from the Sahara. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

inferred from original work (title) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

refer original publication - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

web search (AJR) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

www.organismnames.com (Jul 2012) / web search - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

ZooKeys 28. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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