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It is known from a nearly complete and articulated skeleton including the skull, which was found in the Messel/Messel Pit locality of Germany.
The fossil Eurotamandua from the Messel Pit in Germany may be an early anteater, but its status is currently debated.
In 1987, Peters named another monospecific genus of ameghinornithid, Aenigmavis sapea, based on a nearly complete skeleton from the Middle Eocene Messel pit of Germany.
Unlike other crocodyliforms present in the Messel Pit, Bergisuchus was a small terrestrial hypercarnivore.
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.