Allodaposuchus

Allodaposuchus was an ancient reptile very close to the ancestor of today's crocodilians. It lived during the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) of Southern Europe (Spain, Romania).

Fragmentary remains of Allodaposuchus precedens were found at Valioara, in the Hateg Basin in Romania. These fragments were originally identified as Crocodilus affuvelensis Matheron, 1869, whose rests have been found in France. Both species were considered as synonyms; nevertheless, C. affuvelensis has been recently recognised as belonging to the genus Massaliasuchus. More recently (2006), a complete skull of A. precedens has been discovered in the Maastrichtian locality of Oarda de Jos in the southwestern Transylvanian Basin of Romania and shed new lights on the phylogeny of the genus.

It probably grew to about 10 feet long in length, depending what type of environment it lived in.