Sabresuchus

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

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

Taxonomy

Two valid species are currently recognized: Sabresuchus ibericus from eastern Spain, and Sabresuchus sympiestodon from Romania,.^[1] Both species were previously assigned under the genus Theriosuchus, as T. ibericus^[2] and T. sympiestodon^[3] respectively. A 2016 cladistic analysis recovered it as a neosuchian more closely related to members of the family Paralligatoridae than to atoposaurids.^[1]