Reconstruction of Eremosuchus in size comparison with human and Arsinoitherium
Eremosuchus is an extinct genus of sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian.
Discovery[]
Fossils have been found in El Kohol, Algeria, dating to the Eocene. It had serrated, ziphodont teeth.
Classification[]
The genus was originally referred to the family Trematochampsidae in 1989. A close relation to the baurusuchids was also considered. However, it was only tentatively assigned to this family based on a few features of the cranial skeleton.
Some features, such as a broad concave symphysis and laterally compressed teeth, are not restricted to trematochampsids and also occur in some sebecosuchians such as Baurusuchus and Sebecus.
Other features, such as the surangular forming part of the craniomandibular articulation, can also be found in many basal mesoeucrocodylians.
A later phylogenetic analysis placed Eremosuchus within the suborder Sebecosuchia.