Outline: a typical theropod
Laevisuchus
"light crocodile"
Type species Laevisuchus indicus
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Noasauridae
- Found in
- India
- Named by
- Huene 1933
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Laevisuchus
What it was like
Laevisuchus was a small, slender noasaurid, a lightly built predator. It is known only from a few neck bones.
Its world
It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, near the end of the Cretaceous, in what is now India. It comes from the Lameta Formation, where it shared the land with the larger abelisaurs Rajasaurus and Rahiolisaurus and the titanosaurs Isisaurus and Jainosaurus.
How it was found
Huene named Laevisuchus in 1933. The type species is Laevisuchus indicus.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Noasauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: F. v. Huene and C. A. Matley. 1933. The Cretaceous Saurischia and Ornithischia of the Central Provinces of India. Palaeontologica Indica (New Series), Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 21(1):1-74