Ceratosuchops
Ceratosuchops was a meat-eating dinosaur with a crocodile-like face and bumpy horns above its eyes. It lived near rivers and probably hunted fish and other animals, just like a heron does today.1
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Ceratosuchops was named in 2021, making it a very recently discovered dinosaur.2
Its name means 'horned crocodile face' because of the bumpy horns above its eyes and its long, crocodile-like snout.1
It lived about 125 to 121 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous period.2
Ceratosuchops belonged to a group of spinosaurid dinosaurs that often had crocodile-like skulls and may have eaten fish.1
Its fossils were found on the Isle of Wight, a famous place for dinosaur discoveries in England.1
Scientists think Ceratosuchops lived near rivers and hunted like a modern heron, wading in shallow water to catch prey.1
Most asked questions about Ceratosuchops
?How big was Ceratosuchops?
About 9 metres (30 feet) long, with a skull about 1 metre (3.3 feet) long.3
?What did Ceratosuchops eat?
It ate fish, small turtles, young crocodiles, baby dinosaurs, and mammals.4
?When was Ceratosuchops discovered?
It was named in 2021, based on fossils found between 2013 and 2017.4
?Why does Ceratosuchops have horns?
The bony bumps above its eyes might have been used for signalling to other animals or for fighting.4
?Is Ceratosuchops a dinosaur?
Yes, it is a theropod dinosaur in the spinosaurid group.4
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- Scientific name
- Ceratosuchops
- Named by
- Barker et al. 20216
- Group
- Spinosaurs
- Family / clade
- Spinosauridae6
- Classification
- Theropoda > Spinosauridae6
- Age of the rocks
- 126 to 121 million years (Barremian)6
- Rock formations
- Wessex6
- Countries
- United Kingdom6
- Fossil records
- 1 in the Paleobiology Database6
- Discovery
- Ceratosuchops was named by Barker and colleagues in 2021 based on fossils found on the Isle of Wight, England, between 2013 and 2017.1
- Still debated
- Scientists are not sure exactly how big Ceratosuchops grew, because only a few skull bones have been found so far.2
Where the facts come from
- New spinosaurids from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous, UK) and the European origins of Spinosauridae (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Two New Species Of Large Predatory Dinosaur Discovered On Isle of Wight | University of Southampton (southampton.ac.uk)
- Ceratosuchops (en.wikipedia.org)
- New spinosaurids from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous, UK) and the European origins of Spinosauridae | Scientific Reports (nature.com)
- Ceratosuchops in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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