home.social

#crocodylia — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #crocodylia, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Fearsome Cleaver-Headed #Crocodiles Once Inhabited Central Australia sci.news/paleontology/baru-iyl

    The last Baru (#Crocodylia, #Mekosuchinae): a new species of ‘cleaver-headed crocodile’ from central #Australia and the turnover of #crocodylians during the Late #Miocene in Australia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ft

    "Imagine a 4-5-m-long Indo-Pacific #crocodile, but with a shorter, deeper snout and very large, backward pointing teeth, and a generally heavier, gnarly-looking head. That’s Baru!"

  2. Unsolicited taxonomic opinion: Whatever Pallimnarchus may be, it is NOT Paludirex

    #taxonomy #Crocodylia #Mekosuchinae