#baurusuchus

[brokenflaem123432]

I really like the dinoformers! Since There was that study that birds could play a png as sound, could the cassettes be enantiornithes? (Just spitballing, don’t have to do this, just some food for thought)

I love this so much actually!

Have Lazerbeak the Longipterix, Buzzsaw the Falcatakely, and Ravage the Baurusuchus

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[catguirk]

I wish more people would make a fan stuff exploring gvh’s world more,like how Dino society interacts with the times fauna like sebecids and mosasaurs and id like to imagine non-sapient dinosaurs too! Basically I just wanna see ocs or maybe the dinogang themselves interacting with maastrichtian critters,I even have an idea for a story where some teen campers are terrorized by a large sebecid and megaraptoran in some off-limits woods near caldera bay

[cellulosaurus]

Whiped up this drawing after learning about this paper on the evolution of the crocodilian ear (yes I’m nine years late to the party but that’s so cool). Basically, Baurusuchids had very peculiar ears, which might imply a mammal like external ear. My version is of course very speculative and I’m not sure it’s even that accurate.

The thing to remember is that the external ears of notosuchians were most likely quite intricate, and not just a pinhole or something like the ear flap covering modern crocs’ ears

[minzis1601]

Made this art for a paleoart contest! One of my fave creatures, a Baurusuchus! Hope you guys like it!

[saritawolff]

Archovember Day 4: Baurusuchus salgadoensis

Baurusuchus was a terrestrial crocodyliform predator/scavenger also from Brazil, but this time in the late Cretaceous. At 11.5 - 13.1 feet long and around 176 lbs, it stalked through a hot and arid climate, likely digging for water during the dry seasons. It had a powerful bite, and could snap it’s jaws closed very quickly. Baurusuchus would have competed with abelisaurid dinosaurs such as Pycnonemosaurus for food.

[makairodonx]

Baurusuchus with a titanosaur kill

[dinosaur-discourse]

Crocodylo-Month, Day 17: Baurusuchus

(Image by Nobu Tamura.)

Another species of notosuchian, Baurusuchus was quite unlike the placid herbivores that have appeared previously in Crocodylo-Month.  It was a large carnivore that is believed to have directly competed with large theropods for food.

Baurusuchus lived in Brazil during the Late Cretaceous.  It bore a striking resemblance to the rauisuchids and prestosuchids of the Triassic period, although it was much smaller - only about twelve feet long, in comparison with Saurosuchus’s thirty-foot length.  It also had a much more dinosaur-like skull, with a laterally compressed shape, rather than the vertically flattened shape of modern crocodilian skulls.  It is believed to have attacked by biting down on its prey and pulling away, tearing chunks of flesh free with its serrated teeth.  (This is similar to how modern Komodo dragons attack their prey.)

(Image by Felipe Elias.)

It’s often assumed that dinosaurs were the only large land predators of the Mesozoic, but the existence of Baurusuchus disproves this idea.  Even after their Triassic heyday came to an end, crocodylomorphs were more than capable of challenging theropod dinosaurs for dominance on land.

[crocutable]

Baurusuchus animal companion with lizard folk handler/druid.