Ceratosuchops inferodios Ceratosuchops

Ceratosuchops (meaning “horned crocodile face”) is a genus of spinosaurid from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) Wessex Formation of Britain. The type species is C. inferodios, known from skull fragments (a snout tip and a partial braincase) recovered between 2013–2017 from Chilton Chine on the Isle of Wight, and housed at the Dinosaur Isle Museum in Sandown. It was named in 2021 by a team consisting of Chris Tijani Barker, Darren Naish, David W. E. Hone, and colleagues, alongside Riparovenator milnerae.

Ceratosuchops is notably distinguished from its close relatives by the presence of a bony lump, known as a boss, which extends from each postorbital bone, hence its genus name. These bosses may have served a function in signalling, or, like similar structures in other species, might have been involved in combat behaviours. The size of C.