I'm mightly suspicious about those forelimbs. It's fairly well known now that no archosaur had claws on its last two digits (look at a modern day croc hand, and then look at any dinosaur with more than three fingers). Either it was a really weird taxa, or put together by someone who had no idea what they were doing.
From Thiago Marinho: "I have to say that this skeletal reconstruction is not accurate. First, I did not participate of this reconstruction, but I participated of the life reconstruction. First things first: Armadillosuchus do have this rigid cervical shield like extant armadillos, and mobile bands of osteoderms posteriorly. OK, the mobile bands are wide, but not even close to the skeletal reconstruction seen at the picture. These lateral hexagonal osteoderms that where reconstructed at the skeletal is fiction created by the artist. When I saw it, I almost fainted, because its a real crap. Furthermore, the teeth are wrong, and the list goes on and on... so please, keep in mind that this was product of the artists mind although this creature deserves a WOW."
Not that it is relevant dow that we have the comments from one of the authors, but look at the hind foot - the transversely oriented calcaneum, with the tib/fib at right angles to it. Hardly croc-like.
I'm mightly suspicious about those forelimbs. It's fairly well known now that no archosaur had claws on its last two digits (look at a modern day croc hand, and then look at any dinosaur with more than three fingers). Either it was a really weird taxa, or put together by someone who had no idea what they were doing.
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ReplyDelete"I have to say that this skeletal reconstruction is not accurate. First, I did not participate of this reconstruction, but I participated of the life reconstruction.
First things first: Armadillosuchus do have this rigid cervical shield like extant armadillos, and mobile bands of osteoderms posteriorly. OK, the mobile bands are wide, but not even close to the skeletal reconstruction seen at the picture. These lateral hexagonal osteoderms that where reconstructed at the skeletal is fiction created by the artist.
When I saw it, I almost fainted, because its a real crap. Furthermore, the teeth are wrong, and the list goes on and on... so please, keep in mind that this was product of the artists mind although this creature deserves a WOW."
Cheers,
Nick
Looks like the crocodilian answer to glyptodonts.
ReplyDeleteZach, read the comment I made above yours with the quote from Thiago...
ReplyDeleteNot that it is relevant dow that we have the comments from one of the authors, but look at the hind foot - the transversely oriented calcaneum, with the tib/fib at right angles to it. Hardly croc-like.
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