Astorgosuchus
Astorgosuchus is an extinct genus of crocodilian, closely related to true crocodiles, that lived in Pakistan during the late Oligocene period. It contains a single species, A. bugtiensis, which was originally named as a species of Crocodylus in 1908[1] and was moved to its own genus in 2019.[2]
| Astorgosuchus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Superfamily: | Crocodyloidea |
| Genus: | โ Astorgosuchus Martin et al., 2019 |
| Type species | |
| Astorgosuchus bugtiensis (Pilgrim, 1908) | |
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Diet
Astorgosuchus may have preyed upon Paraceratherium, an extinct genus of giant rhinoceros, based upon finds of Paraceratherium bones that had conical tooth prints matching that of the A. bugtiensis. It is likely that A. bugtiensis preyed on the young, or else ill, Paraceratherium, due to their extremely large size as adults.[3]
References
- Pilgrim, G.E (1908) The Tertiary and Post-Tertiary freshwater deposits of Baluchistan and Sind with notices of new vertebrates. Rec Geol Surv India 37:139โ167
- Martin, Jeremy E.; Antoine, Pierre-Olivier; Perrier, Vincent; Welcomme, Jean-Loup; Metais, Gregoire; Marivaux, Laurent (2019). "A large crocodyloid from the Oligocene of the Bugti Hills, Pakistan" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39 (4): e1671427. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1671427. S2CID 209439989.
- Baraniuk, Chris. "The story of rhinos and how they conquered the world". BBC. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
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