#brachiosuchus

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joined paleostream again to sketch some silly creatures :] been a long time

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Brachiosuchus is a large and weird dyrosaurid, a clade of a already weird crocodilomorphs. It had a very long and proportionally large skull, tall neural spines in the shoulder area and most importantly arms that where longer than it's hindlimbs. Yet it appears to have been marine and not terrestrial.

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Croctober day 11:

Injury (featuring brachiosuchus)

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Followup to the skull reconstruction I posted a few days ago, this is the known material of Brachiosuchus. Looking back there's definitely some things I'd change and update, but it still gives a good basic look at it. Brachiosuchus was part of a clade of rather bizarre crocodile cousins, the dyrosaurs (which are more closely related to Sarcosuchus than to modern crocs). They are strange to say the least, highly flexible with weird backs and pretty buff tails. Brachiosuchus additionally stands out due to the enormous arms, which are unique to this species. In literally any other Pseudosuchian, the forelimbs are shorter than the hindlimbs, but from what we know of Brachiosuchus the opposite is true. The closest comparison would be to turtles and plesiosaurs, with the big difference being that those evolved flippers, which Brachiosuchus clearly lacked. Still, it is likely that they were used *somehow* in locomotion, especially since dyrosaurs were known to be marine (mostly) and the fact that Brachiosuchus was found in a nearshore to backshore environment with tidal flats and lagoons. Finally there's size. Mine turned out at a bit over 6 meters, the paper suggests up to 6.8-7.8 meters (tho i doubt the maximum here). Difference could easily be due to the difference between purely mathematical estimate (and the specific method used) vs the fact that I based my proportions on the much more complete, if more derived Congosaurus. There's also the matter that only a small portion of the bones were given actual measurements/accurate scale bars, primarily the limb bones and the skull, while the rest I basically had to eyeball more or less. So don't be surprised if I eventually publish an update or straight up remake.

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Brachiosuchus, a dyrosaurid from the late cretaceous of Sudan. Dyrosaurids are in general already weird crocodilians but Brachiosuchus is extra bizarre because of it's very long arms, that are quite a bit longer than it's hindlimbs. it also has a skull the size of it's torso and tall neural spines.

[arminreindl]

Gotta have some first post so here's a skeletal reconstruction of the skull of Brachiosuchus I made last year, I'll post the full body version eventually, but for now have this. Brachiosuchus was a large dyrosaurid (non-crocodilian crocodylomorph, like a crocodile cousin basically) from the late Cretaceous of Sudan.