Crocodylus falconensis
Name:
Crocodylus falconensis.
Phonetic: Crok-o-dil-us fal-con-en-sis.
Named By: T. M. Scheyer, O. A. Aguilera,
M. Delfino, D. C. Fortier, A. A. Carlini, R.
Sánchez, J. D. Carrillo-Briceño, L. Quiroz & M.
R. Sánchez-Villagra - 2013.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Crocodylomorpha, Crocodilia, Crocodylidae, Crocodylinae.
Species: C. falconensis.
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Holotype skull approximately 74
centimetres long, total size unknown.
Known locations: Venezuela - San Gregorio
Formation, Cergel Member.
Time period: Zanclean of the Pliocene.
Fossil representation: Almost complete skull and
lower jaws.
Crocodylus falconensis is an extinct species of the Crocodylus crocodile genus which contains the modern crocodiles that we know today such as the Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) and saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus). Crocodylus falconensis lived in Venezuela during the early Pliocene, and although exact details about the full size of Crocodylus falconensis are uncertain at the time of writing, the fact that the holotype specimen has a skull over seventy centimetres long indicates that Crocodylus falconensis would at least have been a medium to large crocodile by modern standards.
Further reading
- Crocodylian diversity peak and extinction in the late Cenozoic of
the northern Neotropics. - Nature Communications
4(1907):1-9. - T. M. Scheyer, O. A. Aguilera, M.
Delfino, D. C. Fortier, A. A. Carlini, R. Sánchez,
J. D. Carrillo-Briceño, L. Quiroz & M. R.
Sánchez-Villagra - 2013.
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