A new Crocodyliform from the Kem Kem Group

[Troodon]

A new peirosarid crocodyliform is described from the Kem Kem Group.  

Antaeusuchus taouzensis

 

This review, indicates the existence of at least three approximately contemporaneous peirosaurid lineages within the Kem Kem Group, alongside other notosuchians, and support the peirosaurid affinities of the ‘trematochampsid’ Miadanasuchus oblita from the Maastrichtian of Madagascar.  

 

Identification of crocodyliform teeth from this region has been complicated with this publication.   The paper does do a comparison with Hamadasuchus rebouli .

 

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211254

 

 

Jaw comparisons with Hamadasuchus rebouli

 

 

Comparison of peirosaurid mandibles from the Kem Kem Group in lateral view: (a) NHMUK PV 36829 (Antaeusuchus taouzensis n. gen. n. sp. holotype); (b) NHMUK PV R36874 (Antaeusuchus taouzensis paratype); (c) MDEC001 (Hamadasuchus rebouli holotype); (d) ROM 49282; (e) BSPG 2005 I 83. (a1–e1) show close-up images of the teeth of each respective taxon. Image (b) is reversed. Scale bars represent 50 mm.

[Troodon]

The paper indicates that other crocodyliforms exist and one with affinities with Miadanasuchus oblita of Madagascar.   I looked at the publication and not much there  the holotype only had a partial tooth that is not very recognizible.   Its another large croc.

 

 

Erin L. Rasmusson Simons and Gregory A. Buckley (2009). "New Material of "Trematochampsa" Oblita (Crocodyliformes,Trematochampsidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (2): 599–604. doi:10.1671/039.029.0224