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Re: Supercroc

Chris Benzinski (cbenzinski@hotmail.com) wrote:

<Sarcosuchus was not the first huge prehistoric crocodile. Rhamphosuchus
came from Pakistan and lived in the Pliocene. Based on an elongate snout
it was estimated to be 50ft long.>

  Do you mean first known, or first in time specifically? If the latter,
then *Sarcosuchus* from the mid-Cretaceous (upper Lower to lower Upper
Cretaceous of middle Gallic, typically Aptian-Albian) beats all.
*Deinosuchus* is from the Campanian, upper Late Cretaceous, and may beat
that one, too. There were between three and five super-crocs, and most if
not all of them were actually alligatoroids, with *Sarcosaurus* being a
pholidosaur and more basal.

  Cheers,

=====
Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

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