Proexochokefalos

Proexochokefalos
Temporal range: Callovian-Kimmeridgian
~
Skull of P. heberti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Suborder: Thalattosuchia
Family: Machimosauridae
Subfamily: Machimosaurinae
Genus: Proexochokefalos
Johnson et al., 2020
Type species
Proexochokefalos heberti
(Morel de Glasville, 1876)
Other species
  • P. cf. bouchardi (Sauvage, 1872)
Synonyms
  • Steneosaurus cf. bouchardi Sauvage, 1872

Proexochokefalos (meaning "big head with big tuberosities") is an extinct genus of machimosaurid teleosauroid from the Middle to Late Jurassic of France and Switzerland. In life, it was a large marine reptile that would have fed on other large animals.