Sabresuchus

Sabresuchus is an extinct genus of neosuchian crocodyliform from the Cretaceous of Europe.^[1] The name is derived from 'Sabre' in reference to the enlarged and curved fifth maxillary tooth, and 'suchus' from the Ancient Greek for crocodile.^[2]

Sabresuchus Temporal range: Cretaceous
Scientific classification
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,.^[2] Both species were previously assigned under the genus Theriosuchus, as T. ibericus^[3] and T. sympiestodon^[4] respectively. A 2016 cladistic analysis recovered it as a neosuchian more closely related to members of the family Paralligatoridae than to atoposaurids.^[2]