Shamosuchus
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| ?Shamosuchus Conservation status: Fossil |
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Shamosuchus was a genus of Neosuchian crocodile that existed during the Late Cretaceous (Santonian) period in the Gobi desert of Mongolia, ~85 million years ago. The species teeth were addapted for bivalves, gastropods and other animals with a shell or exoskeleton.
The species is only known from an intact well preserved skull for the nominate species (first describes specimen) and for the other species little information is available. The eye's opening is not raised above the skull to the exstent like modern crocodilians, the nasal opening is not raised at all so this species would have to raise its head totally out of the water to breath and so exsposing its position to large prey, hence its diet above.
