Ceratosuchops

What it was like

Ceratosuchops was a spinosaur, a kind of predator with a long, low snout like a crocodile's. It probably caught fish as well as other prey near water. Small bumps of bone above its eyes gave it the "horned" part of its name.

Its world

It lived about 126 to 121 million years ago, in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now England. Its bones come from the Wessex Formation, a land of rivers and floodplains shared with the predators Neovenator and Eotyrannus and the plant eater Mantellisaurus.

How it was found

Barker and colleagues named it in 2021 from pieces of the skull. The type species is Ceratosuchops inferodios. Another spinosaur from the same rocks, Riparovenator, was named at the same time, and both are close relatives of Baryonyx.