Reptile
Sarcosuchus
Many skeletal parts are known, including bony plates, jaws and a nearly complete skull.
Sarcosuchus is known from numerous pieces, from bone plates to jaws and skulls.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Sarcosuchus at a glance
- Diet
- Carnivore
- It is interpreted as a consumer of other animals. Hunting and scavenging are not mutually exclusive behaviors.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Pholidosauridae
- Pholidosaurids
- Fossil locations
- Niger
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Sarcosuchus
It was a large crocodyliform described in 1966. The reference specimen of S. imperator included an incomplete skull collected in Gadoufaoua, in the Sahara.
Numerous parts of the skeleton are known, including bone plates, jaws, and a nearly complete skull. Each one provides information about a different part of this enormous crocodyliform. The specimen used to describe it did not bring together all the material that is currently known.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.A note on the science
It was a large crocodyliform described in 1966. The reference specimen of S. imperator included an incomplete skull collected in Gadoufaoua, in the Sahara.
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- Sarcosuchus
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- Sarcosuchus
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- Pholidosauridae
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- Crocodiles, caimans, and gharials
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