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	Deinosuchus (Deinosuchus hatcheri)
		Deinosuchus had a 6-foot long jaw with more than 100 slightly curved, bone crunching teeth.
		Deinosuchus fed on animals living in and near the water.
		Deinosuchus lived in the swamps of Texas toward the end of the Cretaceous period.
	www.thebigzoo.com /animals/Deinosuchus.asp (282 words)

	Deinosuchus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Deinosuchus is the largest crocodylian that ever lived and was the distant ancestor to modern crocodiles and alligators.
		Although few fossils of Deinosuchus have been found and many details about it are missing, it is believed to have grown to an astonding 50 feet (15 meters) in length.
		Deinosuchus lived during the late Cretaceous (85 to 66 million years ago) on the shores of the great shallow sea that covered much of North America's present interior.
	members.tripod.com /~Dinosauria/Deinosuchus.html (112 words)

	Deinosuchus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Deinosuchus is an extinct genus of alligatorid from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of North America.
		Deinosuchus is known mainly from skull material, and recent studies have reduced its estimated length.
		The proportions of Deinosuchus are similar to the skull of today's Nile crocodile, which is a generalist carnivore that hunts fish, crustaceans, and large mammals, such as wildebeest and zebra.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deinosuchus (485 words)

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		The ironclad was halfway through the murky lake when, as if on cue, the native carnivore leaped from the water, surprising the ironclad’s pilot.
		The Deinosuchus triumphantly straddled its fallen prey, though not without suffering some injuries from the ironclad’s buzzsaw and needle-gattling gun.
		The pilot was either dead or dying, the ironclad having been breached and water flowing into the cockpit.
	www.goodman-games.com /TheDeinosuchusDefense.doc (1090 words)

	Cretaceous Fossils: Deinosuchus rugosus Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		1986 Deinosuchus rugosus (Emmons); Gallagher, Parris and Spamer
		Deinosuchus rugosus (Emmons) ranges throughout most of the Campanian (~80-72 mya).
		Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 220 pp.
	www.cretaceousfossils.com /vertebrates/crocs_and_gators/deinosuchus_rugosus.htm (41 words)

	40-foot croc found in Chihuahua (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Teeth and bony armor of Deinosuchus were found in desert exposures of sedimentary layers deposited on the coast of Chihuahua some 70 million to 80 million years ago as the shoreline slowly moved from near Ojinaga, Mexico to the southernmost part of Big Bend National Park as the Rocky Mountains began to uplift.
		Deinosuchus riograndensis is a contender for the title of Earth's supreme predator.
		Westgate and Pittman, a lecturer in geology at Lamar, were joined in Chihuahua by Ben Brown of the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia E Historia, Chihuahua, Dana Cope of the College of Charleston, and Jon Kalb of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, Texas Natural Science Center in Austin.
	www.lamar.edu /newsevents/news/207_4767.htm (646 words)

	Findings on Giant Cretaceous crocs: 3/99
		The giant crocs, dubbed Deinosuchus, or terror crocodile, needed their large stature to compete with the dinosaurs that also tended to be extremely large by today's standards.
		The researchers studied the annual growth layers in the fossilized bony armor plates called scutes from two terror crocs that were unearthed in Texas and Montana.
		By comparing them with the scutes of existing crocodilians, the researchers have found that the Deinosuchus grew a foot a year, about the same as modern crocodiles, but they continued to grow for a much longer period, taking about 35 to 40 years to reach adult size.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/1999/march31/terrorcroc331-a.html (516 words)

	Animal Planet :: Prehistoric Park
		Not many bones have been found of Deinosuchus, but there are enough to know that it was one of the biggest crocodiles ever.
		Deinosuchus would wait stealthily underwater until its prey came too close, then with a powerful burst of speed would thrust out of the water to snatch its victim.
		Deinosuchus' long jaws could grasp and hold a struggling dinosaur as it dragged it into the water, rolling over and over to drown its prey.
	animal.discovery.com /convergence/prehistoricpark/zoo/zoo_08.html (267 words)

	Bona fide bony find (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The unlabeled remains - including part of a jawbone, some teeth and some biscuit-shaped armored plates - belong to the first deinosuchus to be found in New Mexico, Lucas said.
		The deinosuchus was found near Farmington in 1999 by Paul Sealey, a volunteer researcher and collector who estimates he collects hundreds of fossils every year.
		Tooth sockets are visible in this fossil of the lower jaw of a deinosuchus.
	www.abqtrib.com /news/2006/jan/03/bona-fide-bony-find/?printer=1 (707 words)

	Deinosuchus « Laelaps
		Perhaps I did see them, but unfortunately all I recall from my early visits were the trip to the fossil halls in a cramped elevator, a museum logo featuring a human skeleton next to the skeleton of a horse, and the immensity of the “Brontosaurus” skeleton in the dim light of the dinosaur halls.
		It’s not easy to attain such large sizes, and it’s important to know whether huge crocodilians followed a growth curve similar to that of their living relatives or were instead fast-growing like some dinosaurs.
		It would be wonderful if I could now go on to describe Deinosuchus as we now know it, but (outside of a decrease in size) it doesn’t seem to be very different from the way it is depicted in the Colbert/Bird paper; as the Cretaceous equivalent of the modern-day alligator.
	laelaps.wordpress.com /2007/05/21/deinosuchus (1507 words)

	Book Review: King of the Crocodylians
		Another famous crocodylian that lived during the Age of Dinosaurs was Deinosuchus, and it is this creature whose life is explored in Dr. David R. Schwimmer's book King of the Crocodylians: The Paleobiology of Deinosuchus.
		"[t]his book on Deinosuchus is a paleoautecology of one of the most intriguing (and strangely overlooked) giant animals of the late Mesozoic Era," states Schwimmer in the Preface.
		In Chapter 1, "The Life and Times of a Giant Crocodylian," Scwimmer sets the scene with an encounter in which a Deinosuchus explodes from a salt marsh to grab a primitive tyrannosauroid dinosaur in its teeth, mortally wounding it, and feeding on the corpse.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/4003/102393 (377 words)

	CBS News \| N.M.'s Largest Crocodile Classified
		The plump-looking armored plates intrigued Lucas, because crocodile plates typically are thin and flat.
		Paul Sealey, a volunteer researcher and collector, found the deinosuchus near Farmington in 1999.
		Other deinosuchus remains have been found in Texas, North Carolina and Montana, he said.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/01/05/ap/tech/mainD8EU70G0K.shtml (400 words)

	Giant Cretaceous crocs grew more slowly than their dinosaur cousins (3/99) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The horizontal lines divide different annual growth layers in the base of the fossil scutes of Deinosuchus (terror crocodile).
		Microscopic cross-sections of Deinosuchus (terror crocodile) and a dinosaur femur illustrate the difference between the way that the two grow.
		The prehistoric crocodile's bones are made of solid layers like those of modern crocodiles and grow slowly.
	www.stanford.edu /group/news/relaged/990317terrorcroc.html (679 words)

	Deinosuchus
		David Schwimmer (the paleontologist, not the part) is working on Deinosuchus material.
		He says that the southeastern states was ruled by Deinosuchids and lived in the seas.
		Genus: Deinosuchus HOLLAND 1909 = Phobosuchus NOPCSA 1924 Species: rugosus (EMMONS 1858) = Polyptychodon rugosus EMMONS 1858 = Crocodilus rugosus (EMMONS 1858) Holotype: USNM 7443 Locality: Elizabethtown, Bladen County, North Carolina.
	dml.cmnh.org /1998Feb/msg00253.html (460 words)

	Mexican croc discovery spawns Canada trip (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lamar University professors Jim Westgate and Jeff Pittman travel to Canada this week to present the recent discovery of a 40-foot long crocodile in Mexico.
		The pair will present the work of their international research team and its discovery of the first evidence of the species Deinosuchus riograndensis in Mexico.
		The two will address researchers at the 66th annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Ottawa, Canada.
	www.lamar.edu /newsevents/news/207_4760.htm (575 words)

	King of the Crocodylians: The Paleobiology of Deinosuchus -- BROCHU 18 (1): 80 -- PALAIOS
		King of the Crocodylians: The Paleobiology of Deinosuchus -- BROCHU 18 (1): 80 -- PALAIOS
		King of the Crocodylians: The Paleobiology of Deinosuchus
		Deinosuchus found its way into the public imagination,
	palaios.geoscienceworld.org /cgi/content/extract/18/1/80 (295 words)

	Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs Cheats
		To get a mermaid in "Marine Mania" create a new tank, then if you have the mermaid statue you can put it in the tank, it will break open and become a mermaid.
		Select "No" when the final scenario concludes and you will be told that the Deinosuchus has been unlocked.
		By continuing past this page, and by your continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
	cheats.gamespy.com /pc-cheats/zoo-tycoon-dinosaur-digs (186 words)

	Paleocreations
		Deinosuchus riograndensis is a contender for the title of Earth's supreme predator.
		Before eating the pieces of meat, Deinosuchus wedges them under rocks and vegetation beneath the water to decay.
		The bones of Leedsichthys were first described 115 years ago but, because the remains are complex and fragmentary, this giant has remained poorly understood.
	www.paleocreations.com (1623 words)

	Hairy Museum of Natural History » New Mexican Deinosuchus
		I missed out on this item at the Day Job, but luckily a combination of mainstream and slipstream media have picked up the story of the remains of uber-croc Deinosuchus uncovered in the fossil collections of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.
		The armor plates, teeth, and a partial jaw of this Cretaceous crocodylian were discovered in northwest New Mexico six years ago by NMMNHandS volunteer Paul Sealey.
		Deinosuchus, a 30-foot long crocodile that lived alongside (and likely preyed upon) the last of the dinosaurs, is known from elsewhere in the United States, but this is the first record of the giant reptile from New Mexico.
	www.hmnh.org /archives/2006/01/05/new-mexican-deinosuchus (198 words)

	ANATOMY OF THE SKULL AND BRAINCASE OF A NEW DEINOSUCHUS RUGOSUS SPECIMEN FROM THE BLUFFTOWN FORMATION, RUSSELL ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A well-preserved posterior skull of Deinosuchus rugosus, with an intact braincase, was discovered in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Blufftown Formation in Russell County, Alabama.
		Due to the smaller size of this Deinosuchus skull compared with other eastern specimens, we conclude the individual was a juvenile.
		The cranium of Deinosuchus rugosus has not been previously available for detailed study because of generally poor specimens, and the new information enhances the position of Deinosuchus in the basal phylogeny of Alligatoroidea.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2005SE/finalprogram/abstract_83311.htm (361 words)

	King of the Crocodylians: the Paleobiology of Deinosuchus
		Toward the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, during a time known as the Late Cretaceous, a new type of giant predator appeared along the southern coasts of North America.
		It was a huge species of crocodylian called Deinosuchus.
		Neither a crocodile nor an alligator, it was at the base of the ancestry of both modern groups; Deinosuchus reached weights of many tons and had features unique to its species.
	www.unireps.com.au /isbn/025334087X.htm (111 words)

	Big Bend National Park - A "Super-Croc" (U.S. National Park Service)
		In fact, dinosaur bones have been found here that are heavily damaged and covered with distinctive crocodile bite marks!
		Just like modern day crocodilians, Deinosuchus riograndensis probably hunted by ambush...lying submerged near shore, and violently seizing large dinosaurs as they foraged amid the vegetation of Big Bend's ancient swamps.
		The magnificent skull of Deinosuchus is on display at the Dallas Museum of Natural History.
	www.nps.gov /bibe/naturescience/deinosuchus.htm (163 words)

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