Science
Related: About this forumArmadillo-like Crocodile
It was 6.6 feet (2 meters) long, weighed about 265 pounds (120 kilograms), and had a relatively wide head with a narrow, toothy snout.
Body armor has never been "found in any other fossil or living crocodile species," Ismar de Souza Carvalho, a paleontologist at the Federal University in Rio de Janeiro,
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090708-armadillo-crocodile-brazil.html
The armor looks star wars like.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)That looks more like a glyptodon evolving toward a croc diet than a crocodilian evolving toward an armadillo. Look at those feet, and look at what seems to be the remnants of a glyptodon-type crest on that skull:
There are legitimate questions about the current theory of armadillo ancestry:
http://www.macroevolution.net/pangolins.html#.TywUSYHpiSo
If you accept that armadillos might have evolved from ankylosaurs, then this fossil makes more sense.
Then you have simosuchus and chimaerasuchus, so the turtle-snouted crocodilians exist too.
eppur_se_muova
(36,269 posts)comparable to ichthyosaur/shark convergence.
Tyrs WolfDaemon
(2,289 posts)That would make for one hell of a mount. Can you imagine a Viking charging in from the ships on shore on one of these?! We would have conquered the world!