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Bergisuchus
''Bergisuchus'' is an extinct genus of sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian. Fossils have been found from the Eocene Messel Pit in Germany. ''Bergisuchus'' was originally classified as a sebecosuchian, supposedly the first to be found outside of South America, and later assigned to Trematochampsidae in 1988. Later that year it was reclassified as a basal baurusuchid.〔Carroll, R.L. (1988) ''Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution''. WH Freeman and Company, New York ISBN 0-7167-1822-7〕 In 2000, the genus was given its own family, Bergisuchidae. ''Bergisuchus'' is known from a holotype rostrum from the Messel Pit, first described in 1966, and a mandible from an open-pit coal mine near Halle in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.〔 The Messel Pit is famous for its well-preserved fossils, which include semiaquatic crocodyliforms such as ''Asiatosuchus'' and ''Diplocynodon''. Unlike other crocodyliforms present in the Messel Pit, ''Bergisuchus'' was a small terrestrial hypercarnivore.〔Jordi Agusti and Mauricio Anton (2002) ''Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids: 65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe''. Columbia University Press.〕 ==References==
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