Elosuchus

Elosuchus is an extinct genus of neosuchian crocodyliform that lived during the Middle Cretaceous of what is now North Africa (Morocco and Algeria).
Description and taxonomy.
"Elosuchus" had an elongated snout like a gharial and was probably a fully aquatic animal. The type species, "E. cherifiensis" from Algeria and Morocco, was originally described as a species of "Thoracosaurus" by Lavocat, but was recognized as a genus separate from "Thoracosaurus" by de Broin in 2002. "Elosuchus felixi", described from the Echkar Formation of Niger, was renamed "Fortignathus" in 2016 and is either a dyrosaurid relative or a non-hyposaurine dyrosaurid.
Phylogeny.
de Broin (2002) created the family Elosuchidae to contain "Elosuchus" and the genus "Stolokrosuchus" from Niger. However, recent phylogenetic analyses usually find "Stolokrosuchus" to be one of the basalmost neosuchian, only distantly related to "Elosuchus". Some analyses find a monophyletic Pholidosauridae that includes "Elosuchus", while other analyses find "Elosuchus" to nest with taxa like "Sarcosuchus" in a clade as a sister-taxon to the node Dyrosauridae+Pholidosauridae.