Mahajangasuchus
| Mahajangasuchus Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous,
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| Skull of Mahajangasuchus insignis in the Field Museum of Natural History. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Family: | †Mahajangasuchidae |
| Genus: | †Mahajangasuchus Buckley & Brochu, 1998 |
| Type species | |
| †Mahajangasuchus insignis Buckley & Brochu, 1998
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Mahajangasuchus is an extinct genus of crocodyliform which had blunt, laterally compressed and serrated teeth. The type species, M. insignis, lived during the Late Cretaceous; its fossils have been found in the Maevarano Formation in northern Madagascar. It was a fairly large predator, measuring up to 4 metres (13 ft) long.