Kaprosuchus
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| phylum | Chordata | Kaprosuchus is known from a single nearly complete skull collected from the Upper Cretaceous Echkar Formation of Niger. The name means "boar crocodile" in reference to its unusually large caniniform teeth which resemble those of a boar. It has been nicknamed "BoarCroc" by Paul Sereno and Hans Larsson, who first described the genus in a monograph published in ZooKeys in 2009 along with other Saharan crocodyliformes such as Anatosuchus and Laganosuchus.
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| clade | Diapsida | |
| clade | Crocodylomorpha | |
| family | Mahajangasuchidae | |
| genus | Kaprosuchus | |
| species | K. saharicus | |
| Temporal range | 95Mya |
