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| NAME: | Meaning - Suchomimus means "crocodile mimic" Pronounced - SOOK-o-MIME-us Named By - Sereno, Beck, Dutheil, Gado, Larsson, Lyon, Marcot, Rauhut, Sadleir, Sidor, Varricchio, G. P. Wilson, and J. A. Wilson When Named - 1998 |
| DIET: | Carnivore (meat-eater) and piscivore (fish-eater) |
| SIZE: | Length - 36 ft (11 m) long (subadult) Height - 12 ft (3.6 m) tall at the hips Weight - 5 tons |
| WHEN IT LIVED: | Middle Cretaceous period, about 110-100 million years ago |
| WHERE IT LIVED: | Fossils have been found in the Tenere region of the Sahara Desert in Niger, Africa. |
| FOSSILS: | David Varricchio first spotted the huge thumb claw, which led to the discovery of the 400-piece fossil. One incomplete skeleton (including a partial skull) has been found. |
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Suchomimus had a two-foot-high sail on its lower back. This dinosaur had a very long snout [1.2 m (4 ft) long] and huge, foot-long thumb claws - adaptations to catch fish. |
| LINKS: | Another page on Suchomimus. |
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