#sebecidae

[arminreindl]

MAJOR NEWS FOR CROCODILE FANS In a newly published paper, Martin et al. describe a new genus of sebecid, Dentaneosuchus from the middle Eocene of France Whats cool about this animal is not just that its part of a group of terrestrial crocodylomorphs, i.e. croc relatives that lived and hunted on land But its also enormous The lower jaw was around 90cm long in the smaller specimen, which puts it in a similar size range as the enormous Barinasuchus from Miocene of South America pictured below (comparisson by Aledgn) this makes it perhaps the biggest land predator of Europe since the extinction of the dinosaurs.

PS: The paper doesn't go into it much, but among the lower estimates is a mere 3-4 meters. While the proportions are unknown, such a low body length seems rather unlikely given that this would mean the head was a whole third of the whole body. 5 to 6 meters seems a lot more reasonable.

#barinasuchus #dentaneosuchus #sebecidae #eocene #europe #palaeblr #paleontology #crocodile #crocodylomorph #extinct

[extinctworld-ua]

Langstonia

Langstonia — вимерлий рід нотозухієвих крокодиломорфів родини Sebecidae. Жив у середньому міоцені (зокрема, в лавентському періоді наземних ссавців). Рештки знайдено в “Мавпячих ложах” колумбійської формації Вільявієха. Langstonia була названа у 2007 році Альфредо Паолілло (Alfredo Paolillo) та Омаром Лінаресом (Omar Linares) на основі скам’янілостей, описаних Ленгстоном у 1965 році як…

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[iamthekaijuking]

headcanon that because of its lipless teeth, prominent osteoderms and three fingered pronated hands the V. Rex from 2005's king kong isn't a tyrannosaur or even a dinosaur, but a derived bipedal crocodylomorph descended from forms similar to the sebecidae

Honestly that probably checks out

[arminreindl]

Dentaneosuchus, the new, roughly Barinasuchus-sized sebecid from Eocene France. Now I wanna prefice this by saying that this is reconstruction is not gospel. Sebecids are a rather poorly known group and there is a lot of guesswork, a lot of unknowns and a lot of things that are subject to change For instance, I based the outline on Sebecus, but if you used proportions more similar to baurusuchids, you'd get a larger animal (as is often the case with Barinasuchus), so really, while this is meant to give a general idea of the animal, its not infallible and doesn't need to be followed to a T

#dentaneosuchus #palaeblr #skeletal #eocene #paleontology #crocodile #sebecidae #sebecosuchia #notosuchia #land crocodile #barinasuchus