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SuperCroc

Description

Sarcosuchus was a giant relative of the crocodile, whose biggest individual (listed as MNN 604) has a skull 1.6 meters long from the tip of the snout to the back of the skull, indicating an overall length of between 11-12 meters and a body weight approaching 8 tons. The eye sockets of the skull and stuck his nose covered two thirds of the skull length, considerably wider than the elongated snout crocodyliforms as the current gavial, while his upper jaw was longer than the bottom, creating an overbite.

 A diet that would have included large terrestrial prey such as the abundant dinosaurs that lived in the same region. Crocodile boar six meters long this species has a snout thtat served to hit as boars and three sets of fangs sharp as daggers with which rebanaban meat that fed.

Habitat: The stratigraphy of the region and the aquatic fauna that was found therein indicates that it was an inland fluvial environment, entirely freshwater in nature with a humid tropical climate.

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