Thanks to Markus Bühler of Bestiarium, I've just learnt of Rom and Nik Whitaker's excellent article on gigantic crocs here at Here be dragons, a blog that I'll definitely be adding to the Tet Zoo sidebar. Hai-Ren actually got it right: well done you! At 84 cm long this skull might cause you to revise whatever preconceptions you had about a species with the name 'False gharial' (having said that, gharials proper ain't necessarily unimpressive. The monster skull is in fact that of a False gharial Tomistoma schlegelii. acutus or Slender-snouted croc Mecistops cataphractus, but it's none of those (for the resurrection of the genus Mecistops Gray, 1844 for cataphractus see McAiley et al. Suggestions included Saltwater croc Crocodylus porosus, outsized American croc C. The challenge was to try and identify the largest skull. Do you remember the photo - provided courtesy of Colin McHenry - showing a variety of crocodilian skulls? I published it in an article on the CEE Functional Anatomy meeting, and here it is again.
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