P. gracilis or
P. vincenti was found to have a unique jaw morphology that set it apart from the others. Some of its teeth had a strange arrangement not found in the other specimens it was jumbled with. The front of its jaw was especially powerful. Surprisingly,
P. vincenti is now better understood than
P. gracilis, because its holotype specimen, meaning the first specimen ever found, is more complete. What differentiated it from the other croc were its premaxillae, cranial bones at the front end of the upper jaw that usually end in teeth.
Lying in wait for something thirsty to come by, P. vincenti terrorized the area now known as the Pliocene Chinchilla Sand of the Darling Downs in southeast Queensland sometime between 5.2 to 1.64 million years ago. That might as well be yesterday compared to the reign of the dinosaurs. Back when
Australia
Darling-downs
Queensland
Jorgo-ristevski
University-of-queensland
Swamp-thing
Pliocene-chinchilla-sand
Freshwater-crocodile
Steve-irwin
Science
Animals
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