My newest submissions for the Lemuria challenge, both baurusuchids tho with different approaches.
While the family is present on Lemuria due to Pabwehshi, baurusuchids come in two flavours. Baurusuchines and pissarrachampsines. For a while Pabwehshi was treated as closer to Baurusuchus but the most recent paper has it as a pissarrachamspine. Given that all other baurusuchids besides Pabwehshi are exclusively known from South America, its really anyones guess which one should be present. Especially given the big unknown that is baurusuchids in Africa.
Anyways, so that its not just the same animal reskinned I obviously went into different directions. Cuonchampsa I kept on the smaller side and left "naked", something informed by what we see in Pissarrachampsa, which despite being known from ample material preserves not a single osteoderm in its vicinity. Baurusuchids are already light in terms of armour and likely didn't use it to stabilize their gait, so this loss is far from improbable. Still, I did elect to keep it smaller because of that anyways. I also made them group animals, inspired by Pissarrachampsa nesting sites, tho again exaggerating things for the sake of spec.
With the baurusuchine I was aiming for something larger, more robust and gnarlier looking. I kept the osteoderms, tho in accordance with recent papers I opted to hide them under extensive soft tissue, going for a kinda cracked texture of sorts (so not quite the leathery softshell turtle dermis the paper uses as an example). Tho the two wouldn't usually encounter another, I kinda went for a bit of a tiger - dhole energy between the two (also referenced by the genus name of the former).
I also did some rough scaling to highlight the size difference