#crocodylia — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #crocodylia, aggregated by home.social.
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Fearsome Cleaver-Headed #Crocodiles Once Inhabited Central Australia https://www.sci.news/paleontology/baru-iylwenpeny-12308.html
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 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ftr/10.1002/spp2.1523
"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!"
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Unsolicited taxonomic opinion: Whatever Pallimnarchus may be, it is NOT Paludirex