5 of the Strangest Prehistoric Crocs

Over the years, scientists have found evidence for a lot of weird prehistoric animals, but some of the strangest have been the crocodyliformes!

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Sources:
Intro
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.140385
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/ngs-brd111809.php
Buckley et al 2000 A pug-nosed crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar (https://www.nature.com/articles/35016061)
https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100804/full/news.2010.389.html
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/ahp/LAD/C21/C21_Convergent.html
https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/similarity_ms_08
https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/flight/converge.html
https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_09

Mourasuchus
Bronchu 1999 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3889340.pdf)
Fossils explained 34: Crocodilians, Geology Today.- https://darrennaish.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/naish-2001-geology-today-crocodilians.pdf
http://museohn.unmsm.edu.pe/docs/pub_pv/Salas_et_al.,2007_Fitzcarrald_crocodiles.pdf
https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/41/3/564/2091832
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0030471
http://bit.ly/2XwQx9d
http://bit.ly/2IBL34Q
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895981111000824
https://www.britannica.com/science/Miocene-Epoch

Kaprosuchus
Serano and Larsson 2009 (https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/2104/)
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/ngs-brd111809.php (was also used in intro)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/nov/19/galloping-dinosaur-eating-crocodiles
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5536890/

Armadillosuchus
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/ngs-brd111809.php (was also used in intro)
https://on.natgeo.com/2N53dQJ
https://www.igeo.ufrj.br/ismar/3/3_31.pdf
https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/armadillo
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0097138#abstract0

Pelagosaurus
Gignac et al (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-13739-7_15)
http://bit.ly/2RtW8I5
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/pala.12432
http://bit.ly/2xbM78U
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/pala.12432
http://bit.ly/2WYKRka

Metriorhynchids
Fossils explained 34: Crocodilians, Geology Today.- https://darrennaish.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/naish-2001-geology-today-crocodilians.pdf (used in mourasuchus)
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-05/iop-sds051404.php
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/158/4/801/2617599
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17712540
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/205/13/1853.full.pdf
https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/reptiles/sea-turtles
http://bit.ly/2Y9zneM
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/158/4/801/2617599

Images:
Mourasuchus illustration from https://jonbosco.artstation.com/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Protosuchus_BW.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Australia_Cairns_18.jpg
http://bit.ly/2Y5ZIKM
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stomatosuchus2.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kaprosuchus_2.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kaprosuchus.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armadillosuchus.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armadillosuchus_NT.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armadillo-Florida-crop-2009.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baurusuchus_albertoi.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pelagosaurus_BW.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pelagosaurus_typus_2.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gavialis_gangeticus.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metriorhynchus_superciliosum.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Suchodus_durobrivense.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sea_turtle_head.jpg
http://bit.ly/2FsRmpo

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