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I love Armadillosuchus! But I have to ask about the extent of its armor here: usually it's depicted far less extensive.
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This animal still confuses me, even though I know it was real. How did this dermal armor evolve in a crocodilian?
I also want to add that the recreation here, and else where, are very different in skull shape and teeth from the original specimen's reconstructed head. It's interesting that, while originally thought to have uniformly conical teeth like extant crocodilians, it actually had a muzzle and dentition similar in many ways to Araripesuchus.
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The osteoderms fused together.
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that makes two of us. when I first saw it I thought it was a fake
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It looks like a amoradillo. (I mean, I don't know what kind of animal is this?
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In cases like this, there is this wonderful invention called Google , which kindly and ultimately leads you to the Wikipedia-Article about Armadillosuchus , where you can easily see that it was Crocodylomorpha, therefore a relative of modern Crocodiles.
Also the scientific name gives some hints... Armadillo like the Armadillo and -suchus like -crocodile.
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I see, well thanks, but now I'm still forgetting that name came from.
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Well, that's I'm hoping for.
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