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Postosuchus

author: Walter B. Myers/Novapix

reference: t-din01-10003

Image Size 300 DPI: 33 * 25 cm

A 12-foot-long, 1,000 pound rauisuchian archosaur of the genus Postosuchus wanders a hilltop 220 million years ago in what is today Texas. Surrounding the Postosuchus are various cycads, ferns, and tree-like Glossopteridales. With a crocodile-like body and tyrannosaur-like head, Postosuchus was likely a fierce apex predator that preyed upon Dicynodonts and other animals smaller than itself, including some of the first dinosaurs.

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2012 - ANIMAL - EARTH - FAUNA - HISTORY OF EARTH - ILLUSTRATION - MESOZOIC - MOON - POSTOSUCHUS - REPTILE - TRIASSIC -