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  • Quinkana babarra, a new species of ziphodont mekosuchine crocodile from the Early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna, northern Australia with a revision of the genus.

    The small, recently extinct, island-dwelling crocodilians of the south Pacific Darren Naish 2006

  • Quinkana babarra, a new species of ziphodont mekosuchine crocodile from the Early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna, northern Australia with a revision of the genus.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • We don’t really know what D. andiniensis was doing, but terrestrial reptiles with deep snouts and ziphodont teeth – like theropods and sebecosuchian crocodilians – made a living by taking slashing, debilitating bites from large prey animals.

    My party and those marvellous metriorhynchids Darren Naish 2006

  • We don’t really know what D. andiniensis was doing, but terrestrial reptiles with deep snouts and ziphodont teeth – like theropods and sebecosuchian crocodilians – made a living by taking slashing, debilitating bites from large prey animals.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

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