Crocodile armor consists of the protective dermal and epidermal components of the integumentary system in animals of the order Crocodilia. The epidermal...
is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles known as crocodilians. They first appeared 94 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period...
Crocodile Hunter Crocodilianarmor Game (hunting) Sewer alligator Sobek – an ancient Egyptian deity associated with the Nile crocodile "Crocodilian Biology Database...
living crocodilians and all archosaurs more closely related to crocodilians than to birds. Pseudosuchians are also informally known as "crocodilian-line...
The saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) is a crocodilian native to saltwater habitats, brackish wetlands and freshwater rivers from India's east...
with different rates of feeding and activity. Like other crocodilians, alligators have an armor of bony scutes. The dermal bones are highly vascularised...
Living reptiles comprise four orders: Testudines (turtles), Crocodilia (crocodilians), Squamata (lizards and snakes), and Rhynchocephalia (the tuatara). As...
reptiles') is a clade of diapsid sauropsid tetrapods, with birds and crocodilians being the only living representatives. Archosaurs (/ˈɑːrkəˌsɔːr/) are...
(meaning "spine crocodile," in reference to its armor) is an extinct genus of alligatoroid crocodilian, possibly an alligatorine. Its fossils are found...
osteoderm development. The osteoderms of modern crocodilians are heavily vascularized, and can function as both armor and as heat-exchangers, allowing these large...
using DNA extracted from the extinct Voay. The Philippine crocodile is a crocodilian endemic to the Philippines. It is a relatively small, freshwater crocodile...
Pinacosuchus to their new spiked crocodilian Akanthosuchus. The armor of Pinacosuchus was found disarticulated. Gilmore divided the armor into five categories: simple...
and live a fairly nocturnal existence. They are relatively small-sized crocodilians with an average maximum weight of 6 to 40 kg (13 to 88 lb) depending...
Boverisuchus indicate that planocraniids were more heavily armored than living crocodilians, with bony plates called osteoderms tightly interlocking along...
in 1982 that the heavily vascularized armor may also have had a role in thermoregulation as in modern crocodilians. The tail club of Ankylosaurus seems...
pinyin: yángzǐ'è), China alligator, or historically the muddy dragon, is a crocodilian endemic to China. It and the American alligator (A. mississippiensis)...
was found to fail at higher fracture stresses. Crocodilian skin has the potential to be used as armor for sharp impact loading because its skin is embedded...
and persist to the present day as the two surviving archosaur groups: crocodilians and birds. Archosauriforms present several traits historically ascribed...
Poposauroidea; although their closest modern relatives are crocodilians, they were bipedal and lightly armored, with dinosaur-like hip and skull structures. Based...
pseudosuchians, part of the branch of archosaurs more closely related to crocodilians than to birds and other dinosaurs. All known aetosaurs are restricted...
basking (seen in crocodilians) as well as in bone respiratory acidosis buffering during prolonged apnea (seen in both crocodilians and turtles). These...
cleaver-headed crocodile, is an extinct genus of Australian mekosuchine crocodilian. Its fossils have been found from various Late Oligocene and Miocene...
them. Nanchangosaurus resembled a cross between an ichthyosaur and a crocodilian. It had a fusiform body, similar to a dolphin or an ichthyosaur, paddle-like...
Hanyusuchus is an extinct genus of Holocene gavialid crocodilian native to South China, containing a single species Hanyusuchus sinensis. Reaching a total...
is a clade of archosaurs containing the majority of pseudosuchians (crocodilians and their extinct relatives). It was defined as the least inclusive clade...
Mekosuchus is a genus of extinct Australasian mekosuchine crocodilian. Species of Mekosuchus were generally small-sized (less than 2 m (6 ft 7 in) long)...
Triceratops Aggiosaurus – subsequently found to be a metriorhynchid crocodilian Agilisaurus Agnosphitys – possibly non-dinosaurian Agrosaurus – probably...
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