Agaresuchus

Agaresuchus is an extinct genus of allodaposuchid once known as "Allodaposuchus" subjuniperus.

Agaresuchus
Temporal range: Campanian-Maastrichtian
~84.9–66.043 Ma
Holotype skull of Agaresuchus subjuniperus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Family: †Allodaposuchidae
Genus: †Agaresuchus
Narváez et al. 2016
Type species
†Agaresuchus subjuniperus
Puértolas et al. 2012
(Narváez et al. 2016)
Species
  • A. fontisensis (Puértolas et al. 2012)[1]
  • A. subjuniperus (Puértolas et al. 2012)[2]
  • Allodaposuchus .sp? (or Agaresuchus .sp?) (Puértolas et al. 2013)

In 2013 a second species of Allodaposuchus, A. subjuniperus, was named on the basis of a skull from the late-Maastrichtian Conquès Formation, part of the Tremp Group, in the province of Huesca, Spain. The skull was found underneath a juniper tree whose roots had grown between the bones, hence the species name subjuniperus or "under juniper" in Latin. In 2016, the species was renamed to Agaresuchus subjuniperus[1] The 2013 study also proposed that the French and Spanish fossils assigned to A. precedens in 2001 might actually represent a new unnamed species of Allodaposuchus currently identified as Allodaposuchus sp.

References
  1. E. Puértolas-Pascual; J. I. Canudo; M. Moreno-Azanza (2014). "The eusuchian crocodylomorph Allodaposuchus subjuniperus sp. nov., a new species from the latest Cretaceous (upper Maastrichtian) of Spain". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 26 (1): 91–109. doi:10.1080/08912963.2012.763034.
  2. I. Narváez; C.A. Brochu; F. Escaso; A. Pérez-García; F. Ortega (2016). "New Spanish Late Cretaceous eusuchian reveals the synchronic and sympatric presence of two allodaposuchids". Cretaceous Research. 65: 112–125. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2016.04.018.
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