Image: Reconstruction of the giant freshwater crocodile, Pallimnarchus. Credit, Vlad Konstantinov, Andrey Atuchin & Scott Hocknull © 2013 Queensland Museum.
Pallimnarchus is a giant freshwater crocodile reaching 6-7 metres long. Learn more about Pallimnarchus:
- Lived between 4 million – 40,000 years ago
- Thick skull with large conical teeth
- Thick square armour plates called osteoderms
- Large vertebrate hunter
- Part of the extinct crocodile group called mekosuchine crocodilians
- Found across central, eastern and northern Australia
- Inhabited Australian inland rivers and lakes during the Pliocene and Pleistocene
- Currently two species known
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