Enaliosuchus is a dubious[2] genus of extinct marine crocodyliform within the family Metriorhynchidae that lived during the Valanginian stage of the Early Cretaceous.
[1] Isolated teeth were subsequently found across Germany and have been assigned to Enaliosuchus,[2] and a partial specimen (specimen RNGD 990201) discovered in the Campylotoxus Zone of France was assigned to Enaliosuchus macrospondylus by Hua et al.
[3] No Enaliosuchus eggs or nest have been discovered, so little is known of the reptile's lifecycle, unlike other large marine reptiles of the Mesozoic, such as plesiosaurs or ichthyosaurs which are known to give birth to live young out at sea.
[4][5] Sachs et al. (2020) hypothesised that the two species within the genus Enaliosuchus were not monophyletic.
[2] In 2024, Enaliosuchus schroederi, from Germany,[6] which was previously believed to likely be a junior synonym of E. macrospondylus,[3] was moved to the new genus Enalioetes in 2024.