Genus: Dakotasuchus MEHL, 1941
= Dakotasaurus HUENE, 1956 (sic)
Etymology: For the Dakota sandstone and Greek, suchos, "crocodile": Dakota crocodile.

Species: kingi MEHL, 1941
Etymology: In honor of Professor King, of Kansas Wesleyan University at Salina.

Holotype: Kansas Wesleyan University at Salina.

Locality: Unknown, a few miles west of Salina, Saline County, Kansas.

Horizon: Kiowa Formation, Dakota Sandstone.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Albian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Upper Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material: Dorsal and ventral scutes, 13 dorsal, 3 sacral and 1 caudal vertebrae, ribs, ventral ribs, abdominal ribs, mold of the scapula and coracoids from the right side, part of the interclavicle, part of the
left ilium, right and left ischia, proximal half of the left pubis and distal half of the right.

Referred material:

FREDERICKSON, COHEN, HUNT & CIFELLI, 2017

Locality: OMNH locality V828, ca. 26 km south of Emery, Emery County, Utah.

Horizon: Mussentuchit Member, Cedar Mountain Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Cenomanian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Lower Gulf Epoch, Middle Cretaceous.

Material:

OMNH 34500: A disarticulated partial skeleton, consisting of a right coracoid, right radius, four nearly complete dorsal vertebrae, six caudal vertebrae, three cervical ribs, four nearly complete and many partial dorsal ribs, and multiple ventral and dorsal scutes.

 

= Dakotasuchus sp cf. D. kingi VAUGHN, 1956

Locality: Sec. 18, T. 16 S., R. 6 W, near the Smokey Hill River in Ellsworth County, Kansas.

Horizon: Kiowa Formation, Dakota Sandstone.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Albian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Upper Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material:

KUMVP 9971: Dorsal scute.