Paludirex
Name: Paludirex
(swamp king).
Phonetic: Pah-lu-de-reks.
Named By: Jorgo Ristevski, Adam M. Yates,
Gilbert J. Price, Ralph E. Molnar, Vera Weisbecker &
Steven W. Salisbury - 2020.
Synonyms: Crocodylus pallimnarchus,
Pallimnarchus pollens.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Crocodilia,
Crocodylidae, Mekosuchinae.
Species: P. vincenti (type),
P. gracilis.
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Skull up to 65 centimetres long. Body
length estimated somewhere between 3 and 4 meters long.
Known locations: Australia.
Time period: Pliocene to Pleistocene.
Fossil representation: Partial skulls.
Paludirex
is a genus of crocodile
that lived in Australia roughly during the
Pliocene and Pleistocene periods.
Further reading
- Australia's prehistoric 'swamp king': revision of the
Plio-Pleistocene crocodylian genus Pallimnarchus de Vis, 1886.
PeerJ. 8: e10466. - Jorgo Ristevski, Adam M. Yates,
Gilbert J. Price, Ralph E. Molnar, Vera Weisbecker &
Steven W. Salisbury - 2020.
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