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Stolokrosuchus
Extinct genus of reptiles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Stolokrosuchus is an extinct genus of crocodyliforms found in the Early Cretaceous Elrhaz Formation, Niger.
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Discovery and naming
The holotype includes a skull with a long thin snout and bony knobs on the prefrontal, and it was found in the Ténéré Desert, Niger. Indeterminate teeth from the same locality as the holotype have also been assigned to the genus.[1]
Stolokrosuchus was described in 2000 by Hans Larsson and Boubacar Gado. The type species is S. lapparenti.[2]
Phylogeny
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Larsson & Gado (2000) initially described it as related to Peirosauridae, if not a member of that family.[2] One study has shown it to be related to Elosuchus.[3] However, more recent works usually find Stolokrosuchus to be one of the basalmost neosuchian,[4] only distantly related to the elosuchid[5][6] or pholidosaurid,[7] Elosuchus. It was a semiaquatic crocodylomorph.[8]
The cladogram following by Nicholl et al. (2021):[1]
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