Kentisuchus Temporal range: Early Eocene,
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K. spenceri fossil at the Tellus Science Museum | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
Clade: | Archosauriformes |
Order: | Crocodilia |
Superfamily: | Gavialoidea |
Genus: | †Kentisuchus Mook, 1955 |
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Kentisuchus is an extinct genus of gavialoid crocodylian, traditionally regarded as a member of the subfamily Tomistominae. Fossils have been found from England and France that date back to the early Eocene.[2] The genus has also been recorded from Ukraine, but it unclear whether specimens from Ukraine are referable to Kentisuchus.[3][4]