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The bigger, but less common, Deinosuchus that lived in Texas and Montana might have been more specialized hunters, capturing and eating large dinosaurs. [17] Schwimmer noted no theropod dinosaurs in Deinosuchus 's eastern range approached its size, indicating the massive crocodilian could have been the region's apex predator. [18]
Sarcosuchus is commonly classified as part of the clade Pholidosauridae, [3] [12] [13] a group of crocodile-like reptiles (Crocodyliformes) related but outside Crocodylia (the clade containing living crocodiles, alligators and gharials). [3] Within this group it is most closely related to the North American genus Terminonaris. [3]
The bones indicate that the dinosaur was a juvenile and that its body could have weighed about 1.7 kg, [2] [4] and about the size of a chicken. Since the digestive secretions in the stomach of crocodiles are strong, the preserved dinosaur means that it was eaten shortly before the crocodyliform's death. [10]
There were duck-billed dinosaurs, horned dinosaurs, armored dinosaurs, meat-eating dinosaurs, and various crocs, turtles, small mammals, birds, amphibians and fish.
Suchomimus (meaning "crocodile mimic") is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived between 125 and 112 million years ago in what is now Niger, North Africa, during the Aptian to early Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous Period.
First, it should be rounded on all edges (and some are polished) because inside a dinosaur's gizzard any genuine gastrolith would have been acted upon by other stones and fibrous materials in a process similar to the action of a rock tumbler. Second, the stone must be unlike the rock found in its geological vicinity, i.e., its geologic context.
A large carnivorous dinosaur from the Cretaceous period of Northern Africa, with a head resembling one of a crocodilian, is found which could grow up to 50 feet long. Dr. Campbell (Bruce Weitz) uses its DNA with a modern-day crocodile to create two hybrids of it at Paula Kennedy's Genetic Research Co. (Gereco) lab.
Crocodiles are one of the most fascinating reptile species in the world. Often called “living dinosaurs” due to their shared ancestor, archosaurs, they’re also some of the keenest predators ...