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Elosuchus
''Elosuchus'' is an extinct genus of neosuchian crocodyliform that lived during the Early Cretaceous of what is now North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Niger). ''Elosuchus'' had an elongated snout like a gharial and was probably a fully aquatic animal. The genus contains two species, ''E. cherifiensis'' from Algeria and Morocco, formerly described as a species of ''Thoracosaurus'' by Lavocat,〔Lavocat, R., 1955, Decouverte d'un Crocodilien du genre ''Thoracosaurus'' dans le Cretace Superiuer d'Afrique: Bulletin du Museum National d'Historie Naturelle, Paris, v. 2, n. 27, p. 338-340.〕 and ''E. felixi'' from Niger. The genus has been recognized to be separate from ''Thoracosaurus'' by de Broin in 2002.〔de Broin, F. de L., 2002, ''Elosuchus'', a new genus of crocodile from the Lower Cretaceous of the North of Africa: C. R. Palevol, v. 1, p. 275-285.〕
==Phylogeny==
de Broin (2002) created the family Elosuchidae to contain ''Elosuchus'' and the genus ''Stolokrosuchus'' from Niger.〔 However, recent phylogenetic analyses usually find ''Stolokrosuchus'' to be one of the basalmost neosuchian, only distantly related to ''Elosuchus''. Some analyses find a monophyletic Pholidosauridae that includes ''Elosuchus'',〔 while other analyses find ''Elosuchus'' to nest with taxa like ''Sarcosuchus'' in a clade as a sister-taxon to the node Dyrosauridae+Pholidosauridae.〔〔
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