Deinosuchus

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title: Deinosuchus
text: Deinosuchus is an extinct genus of alligatoroid crocodilian, related to modern alligators and caimans, that lived 82 to 73 million years ago (Ma), during the late Cretaceous period. The name translates as "terrible crocodile" and is derived from the Greek deinos (δεινός), "terrible", and soukhos (σοῦχος), "crocodile". The first remains were discovered in North Carolina in the 1850s; the genus was named and described in 1909. Additional fragments were discovered in the 1940s and were later incorp
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description: Genus of a giant crocodylian
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinosuchus
date created: 2004-12-24T02:07:17Z
date modified: 2024-09-12T03:00:19Z
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