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sharp-clawed runner
Laevisuchus
Say it like this: “LEE-vi-SOOK-us”
Laevisuchus indicus
Laevisuchus ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in India.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 1933 · Huene, F. V.; Matley, C. A.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 2 m · 7 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- India · Lameta
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Noasaurinae
The story in short
The genus Laevisuchus dates to 1933, the year F. V. Huene and C. A. Matley described it. The name means “light crocodile.”
Fossils referred to Laevisuchus date to the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from India, including the Lameta Formation. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Laevisuchus at a length near 2 m.
On the family tree it sits in Noasaurinae, among the theropod dinosaurs.