Cretaceous Crocodile Scute #27

Description

• Indeterminate Crocodile Scute
• Cretaceous Age
• S. of Taouz, Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco North Africa
• Specimen measures 2.3″ wide
• More Crocodile Fossils

The following is a list of possible species:  

Aegisuchus witmeri (Holliday & Gardner, 2012), Araripesuchus rattoides (Sereno & Larsson, 2009), Elosuchus cherifiensis (Lavocat, 1955), Hamadasuchus rebouli (Buffetaut, 1994), Kemkemia auditorei (Cau & Maganuco, 2009), Laganosuchus maghrebensis (Sereno & Larsson, 2009), Sarcosuchus ( Albert-Félix de Lapparent, from 1946 to 1959)

Crocodiles or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae), the gharial and false gharial (family Gavialidae) among other extinct taxa.