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Sarcosuchus & Ornithopoda dinosaurs

by

Walter B. Myers/Novapix

Reference

t-din03-00031

Date

2012-11-12

A pair of four-foot-long ornithischian dinosaurs of the order Ornithopoda give wide berth to a 40-foot-long, 10-ton crocodyliform of the genus Sarcosuchus 110 million years ago in what is today Africa. A distant relative of the crocodile, Sarcosuchus was one of the largest crocodile-like reptiles that ever lived, nearly twice as long as today's saltwater crocodile.