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Kaprosuchus

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has been suggested to be a primarily aquatic predator, and that the specimens of both genera show cranial adaptations usually found in "definitively semiaquatic" crocodylomorphs, "such as elongate platyrostral or tube-like snouts, orbits located dorsally on the skull, and/or dorsally-facing external
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of the lower jaw is long, it is likely that the jaws were able to open relatively quickly with a large gape to allow for the opposing caniniforms to clear one another. The fused nasal bones are thought to have provided reinforcement for the jaws against compression associated with a powerful bite.
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Jorge Cubo; Mariana V. A. Sena; Paul Aubier; Guillaume Houee; Penelope Claisse; Mathieu G. Faure-Brac; Ronan Allain; Rafael C. L. P. Andrade; Juliana M. Sayão; Gustavo R. Oliveira (2020). "Were Notosuchia (Pseudosuchia: Crocodylomorpha) warm-blooded? A palaeohistological analysis suggests
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was once thought to have been a primarily if not exclusively terrestrial predator. Evidence for this behavior includes the positioning of the orbits laterally and somewhat anteriorly, which suggests an overlap in vision. This is unlike many other neosuchians, including extant
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shield would have been supported by the rugosities at the tip of the snout. Along the interpremaxillary suture, the area where the two premaxillae meet, the surface is smooth, giving the paired rugosity of the premaxillae the resemblance of a moustache in anterior view.
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is known from a nearly complete skull 507 mm in length in which the lower jaw measured 603 mm long, total length is estimated to be around 2.42–3.77 m (7 ft 11 in – 12 ft 4 in) long. It possesses three sets of tusk-like
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The telescoped, dorsally positioned external nares are seen as protection against impact if the animal rammed prey with its robust snout. The keratinous shield thought to have covered the tip of the snout would have provided further protection.
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teeth that project above and below the skull, one of which in the lower jaw fits into notches in upper jaw. This type of dentition is not seen in any other known crocodyliform. Another unique characteristic of
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Gayford, Joel H.; Engelman, Russell K.; Sternes, Phillip C.; Itano, Wayne M.; Bazzi, Mohamad; Collareta, Alberto; Salas-Gismondi, Rodolfo; Shimada, Kenshu (September 2024).
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and those of crocodyliforms that also possess dorsoventrally compressed snouts is the great depth of the posterior portion of the skull.
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crocodyliforms. However further studies on the relationship of this family have repeatedly found them to form a sister clade to
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that project posteriorly from the skull. Smaller projections are also seen in the closely related
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are rugose with the edges elevated above the body of the bone, suggesting that a
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description, Sereno and Larrson considered mahajangasuchids to be a family of
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and Hans Larsson, who first described the genus in a monograph published in
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Nicholl, C.S.C.; Hunt, E.S.E.; Ouarhache, D.; Mannion, P.D. (2021).
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is now thought to have been semiaquatic, as the relative
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in 2009 along with other Saharan crocodyliformes such as
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is the presence of large, rugose horns formed from the
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Genus of crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous period
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Kaprosuchus saharicus
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Mahajangasuchidae
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