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RE: Prehistoric Crocodiles - epaiva - 08-26-2020

Strongest bite force ever Purussaurus 
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RE: Prehistoric Crocodiles - Bitishannah - 08-27-2020

(08-26-2020, 05:52 PM)epaiva Wrote: Strongest bite force ever Purussaurus 
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Is the Purussaurus the largest Crocodaliform ever?

RE: Prehistoric Crocodiles - epaiva - 08-27-2020

(08-27-2020, 07:47 PM)Bitishannah Wrote:
(08-26-2020, 05:52 PM)epaiva Wrote: Strongest bite force ever Purussaurus 
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Is the Purussaurus the largest Crocodaliform ever?

Purussaurus and Sarcosuchus imperator are very even as the largest Crocs in prehistoric times at 12 meters long.

RE: Prehistoric Crocodiles - BorneanTiger - 08-27-2020

(08-27-2020, 08:12 PM)epaiva Wrote:
(08-27-2020, 07:47 PM)Bitishannah Wrote:
(08-26-2020, 05:52 PM)epaiva Wrote: Strongest bite force ever Purussaurus 
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Is the Purussaurus the largest Crocodaliform ever?

Purussaurus and Sarcosuchus imperator are very even as the largest Crocs in prehistoric times at 12 meters long.

And of course, Deinosuchus and Rhamphosuchus: https://books.google.com/books?id=0OsPJnC4CCwC, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3889340?origin=crossref

RE: Prehistoric Crocodiles - epaiva - 08-27-2020

(08-27-2020, 09:09 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:
(08-27-2020, 08:12 PM)epaiva Wrote:
(08-27-2020, 07:47 PM)Bitishannah Wrote:
(08-26-2020, 05:52 PM)epaiva Wrote: Strongest bite force ever Purussaurus 
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Is the Purussaurus the largest Crocodaliform ever?

Purussaurus and Sarcosuchus imperator are very even as the largest Crocs in prehistoric times at 12 meters long.

And of course, Deinosuchus and Rhamphosuchus: https://books.google.com/books?id=0OsPJnC4CCwC, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3889340?origin=crossref
Larger skulls found belong to Purussaurus and Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus is close in size to them

RE: Prehistoric Crocodiles - cheetah - 09-16-2020

Sarchosuchus Imperator Super croc is the biggest crocodile to ever live.Purrasauruses skin was so thick it is estimated that a bullet cannot pierce purrasaurus

RE: Prehistoric Crocodiles - Spalea - 09-21-2020

" The gigantic caiman Purussaurus is known mainly from impressive remains found in parts of Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and the rest of the Amazon region. Discovered and named by Joao Barbosa Rodrigues, in 1892, the animal soon became known as one of the largest and most powerful freshwater predators ever.

Later, the huge blocky skulls of the beasts were uncovered. From these remains it was estimated that Purussaurus was among the largest crocodilians to have been found and one of the biggest reptiles to exist after the dinosaurs’ extinction. It was 12.5 meters long and weighed 8.4 tons, as long as a bus. But some finer details of the creature’s biology still remained a mystery. For example, it was not known exactly how Purussaurus killed its prey nor was its daily food intake known.
http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/the-powerful-bite-of-super-croc-purussaurus/
Art: Raph Lomotan "




RE: Prehistoric Crocodiles - TheNormalGuy - 10-02-2020

@cheetah @Rishi [Technical @]
You can post all your 7 videos in one post. Also, it would be easier if everyone who red that thread saw the title of each video and its description from the creator or uploader.

I'm gonna help you out for how to build a good post and not make this mistake again.
Video #1 : 5 of the Strangest Prehistoric Crocs [Uploaded by SciShow]






"Over the years, scientists have found evidence for a lot of weird prehistoric animals, but some of the strangest have been the crocodyliformes!"

Video #2 : The Croc That Ran on Hooves [Uploaded by PBS Eons]





"In the Eocene Epoch, there was a reptile that had teeth equipped for biting through flesh, its hind legs were a lot longer than its front legs and instead of claws, its toes were each capped with hooves. How did this living nightmare come to evolve?"

Video #3 : A Giant Extinct Caiman - Purussaurus [Uploaded by Ben G. Thomas]





"In the depths of the prehistoric Amazon lurks one of the largest predators the Earth has ever seen...

Video #4 : Sarcosuchus : The Dinosaur Killing Crocodile | Deadly Dinosaurs | Earth Unplugged [Uploaded by BBC Earth Unplugged]





"Steve Backshall needs the most powerful jaw in the dinosaur kingdom... the giant croc Sarcosuchus might have what he's looking for."
Video #5 : Sarcosuchus - The Biggest Crocodile That Ever Existed ?/ Documentary (English/HD) [Uploaded by Jinzo]





"The African Sahara desert wasn't always sand and desolation. In the Cretaceous period it was lush and vibrant, overflowing with mighty freshwater rivers and lakes. Water is life, as we all know, but the waters of this period were also the host of Death in many, many forms. 

Though none so fearsome as that of the Sarcosuchus Imperator - The Flesh Crocodile Emperor.

Now extinct, this enormous and grisly ghost of the waters could have easily dined its distant relatives, the crocodilians which haunt our rivers today. Dubbed the 'Supercroc' in 2001 by National Geographic, what do we truly know about this vicious predator?"

Video #6 : Sarcosuchus : The Giant Crocodile [Uploaded by Moth Light Media]






"Throughout the years there have been many giant crocodiles that grew to over the 8-9 meter range and would have terrorized any ecosystem they were a part of. Even during the dinosaur dominated cretaceous a giant crocodile named Sarcosuchus evolved in Africa. This large beast is often envisioned as a 12 meter dinosaur crusher but recent evidence indicates there may be a lot more to this."
Video #7 : 15 Large & Weird Prehistoric Crocs & Gators [Uploaded by Talltanic]





"From bizarre armadillo crocs … to monsters growing 60 feet long …  here are 15 of the largest and weirdest prehistoric crocodiles and alligators"
On another note : I would like to congratulate on the videos you choose since their creators/uploaders cited their sources/links/litterature/Bibliography and acknowledge the help specialist in ancient crocodiles did when they contact them.

Way to go !!!!


RE: Prehistoric Crocodiles - cheetah - 10-02-2020

Thank you normal guy

RE: Prehistoric Crocodiles - epaiva - 01-25-2021

Purussaurus bite force 
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RE: Prehistoric Crocodiles - Dark Jaguar - 02-12-2021

The Brazilian Tyrannosaurus

year: 2019

https://www.oeco.org.br/reportagens/o-tiranossauro-brasileiro/

A little over a month ago, in early July, a curious event took place in the municipality of Brasiléia, in the state of Acre - Brazil. Robson Cavalcante, an 11 year old boy was fishing with his father on a bank of the Acre River when he stepped on something strange. "I was fishing then I stepped on something different and called my father. He dug a little and I thought it was a dinosaur" said the boy.

The father of the kid, the carpenter José Militão returned to the site the next day to dig further and was impressed with what he found: "I used a hoe and a pick and I discovered that it happened to be a fossil. I did it very carefully so as not to damage it."

What Robson had found was not a dinosaur. Nevertheless it was the remains of a monster. It was the lower jaw of a Purusaurus, the largest Caiman that ever lived.

The news of the discovery of a dinosaur spread through the streets of Brasiléia. It didn't take long for the rumor to spread more than 200 kilometers away, in the state capital, Rio Branco, more specifically in the Paleontology Laboratory of the Federal University of Acre (UFAC). This is how paleontologist Jonas Filho learned about the find and he went to investigate it.

"It's a purussaurus caiman, one of the largest that ever existed in the Amazon, about 8 million ago. It's a complete jaw. It seems that besides the jaw it has a skull that is being exposed" said the paleontologist. The fossilized jaw is more than a meter long which gives the dimensions of the scary mouth that the animal had.



The boy Robson and his father inside the lower jaw of a Purussaurus. Photo: Personal file/Raylanderson Frota.


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In the following days, Jonas Filho carefully collected the block of rock containing the fossil and transported it from the banks of the Acre River to the workbench in his laboratory. There the newly discovered fossil became part of the collection of Purusaur bones that paleontologists in Acre have been collecting for decades.


The star of the collection is a complete skull, the only one ever discovered, a magnificent specimen one and a half meters long, half a meter wide and another half meter high.

The skull was found in the 1980s in the ravines of the Acre River by a team of Brazilian paleontologists (from UFAC) and American paleontologists from the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles. The fossil is so big and heavy - estimated to be over a ton - that to remove and transport it, it had to be cut into several parts, which were glued back together in the laboratory.


The removal of all the rock surrounding the skull was a work of many months, carried out by experts in Los Angeles. When the fossil was finally released from the rock, the result proved impressive. The first complete skull of a purusaur is imposing and frightening. It is in no way less impressive than those skulls of tyrannosaurus rex, the most famous of all dinosaurs, which lived in North America dozens of millions of years before the purusaurus.


After being studied, the complete skull of the purusaurus returned to Acre where it has been kept for more than thirty years under an acrylic dome in the exhibition room of the Paleontology Laboratory of the UFAC, in Rio Branco.


Since then, replicas of that stupendous skull have been modeled and exhibited in several natural history museums around the world.


But the original one is in Acre - Brazil.


Complete skull of Purusaurus at the Laboratory of Paleontology Federal University of Acre - Brazil. Photo: Peter Moon.


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RE: Prehistoric Crocodiles - epaiva - 02-16-2021

Kaprosuchus skull, according to measurements of the skull it measured about 10 feet long (3,05 meters long)
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