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Prehistoric Crocodiles
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Sarcosuchus imperator catching a young dinosaur...
Sarcosuchus: geant crocodolid from the Early Cretaceous reaching 9 m long and weighing 3-3,9 tons... Other measurments speak about individuals reaching 11-12 m long and weighing 8 tons (on the basis of the largest skull ever found measuring 1m60).  (10-10-2019, 02:48 PM)Spalea Wrote: Sarcosuchus imperator catching a young dinosaur... What a coincidence, this just happened in the Philippines: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news...t-20543411 
Sarcosuchus imperator
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Robinson Botero-Arias holding huge skull of Thecachampsa americana, the skull measures 116,2 cm from the tip of the premaxila to the rear of the quadrate.
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" The skull of Deinosuchus, the extinct genus of crocodilian related to the modern alligator. "
After Deinosuchus (at the previous #80), Sarcosuchus... This comparative picture is so eloquent !
" Sarcosuchus and human skull comparison. The largest known skull of Sarcosuchus is 5.2 feet long and was used to estimate the size of this crocodyliformes. Using skull as a based of measurement of the length is a common method to estimate the size of crocodiles and crocodile-like reptiles. ".
" Sarcosuchus is a genus of crocodyliform and distant relative of living crocodylians that lived ~129-112 million years ago. It dates from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now Africa and South America. It was one of the largest crocodile-line reptiles, reaching an average estimate of 9 meters and 3.5 tons but estimated to grow up to 9.5 m in body length and weigh up to 4.7 tons.
Mass: 8,000 kg Lived: 145 million years ago - 93.5 million years ago (Aptian - Cenomanian) Scientific name: Sarcosuchus (Flesh crocodile) Phylum: Chordata Rank: Genus Higher classification: Pholidosauridae. "
Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni
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Purussaurus mirandai
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Deinosuchus skulls
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Deinosuchus
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Purussaurus brasilicus
This genus has been known for more than 100 years but recently specimens, especially Campbell and Frailey's reconstruction of a well preserved skull, showed these alligatoroids to be broad headed high skulled monsters with 2 meter skulls, estimated of st least 12 meters long and estimated weight of at least 10 tons. A jaw fragment from the same genus has been found that extrapolates to an even larger individual than the 2 m skull, with a TBL estimated at slightly over 13,5 m. Book king of the Crocodylians, the Paleontology of Deinosuchus - David R. Schwimmer  *This image is copyright of its original author
Comparison of the 3 different Purussaurus species
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Purussaurus brasiliensis is at Museo da Geodiversidade
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Neptunidraco: seemingly a 100% marine crocodile, discovered in 2011 in Italy inside the " Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation ", dated from the Middle of Jurassic (from Bajocian to Bathonian i.e. 169 to 167 million years ago), metriorhynchidea family, around 4 meters long. Only known from fragmental bones, partial skull and lower jaw...
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