Arkoúdasuchus

GENUS:Crocodylus Laurenti X-factor: Giant 4 inch teeth that could cut through skin like butter. Its back leg muscles Huge and made for leaping on to prey. also semi aquatic. do to the tail structure of the Arkoudasuchus. sharp claws for hang on the preys back. a powerful scenes of smell more powerful then a dogs

Diet: mainly fed on fish and med too smaller animals. fossil show that the Arkoudasuchus specialized in hunting younger animals. fossilized foot prints show that Arkoudasuchus would  have waited for days even weeks. waiting for the mother or father to leave as soon as it was clear the Arkoudasuch  would raid the nest or quickly snatch one of the young and leave before the parents came back. We known this from the fossil remain of the nest sites with foot prints going in the nest and garbing the young and then leaving. fossil of meat hippos have been found with bite marks that match the Arkoudasuchus. So the young hippo surved the attack and grow to adult hood.

Size: 7ft long and 5ft tall

Behavior: This animal would rather stay out of confutation with other predators or an other animal when it hunted. This is why the Arkoudasuchus would go for the Yong when mom and dad where distracted. This would not go so smoothly tho. One fossil of Arkoudasuchus showed half of its skull was shattered  like if something kicked it  in the same spot other and other again. The Arkoudasuchus in this dig site die after the 2nd kick  to the face. More fossils tell us that the Arkoudasuchus would use other predators attack as a way to  snatch prey. Arkoudasuchus fossil show that it may have had gills.

Evolution: first starting as a reptile like animal with fins on the back instead of legs. Coming up out of the water after the meter hit the earth. its fins on the back would grow into legs and  with powerful muscles to get more food  out on land. The body growing  into a croc mixed with a bear structure  giving it more up body  straight. growing giant claws that helped with griping into wet slippery land scap's.huge teeth for chewing prey up. Powerful tail for swimming in the wetlands.

Fossil record: found in a grave yard in 1923 When found The fossil was in great shape. Mistook for a Bear hints the name Bear Croc.cause it also looked lie a croc. Later studies found it was more related to a crocodile. Also know as the grimcroc. Only 50 of arkoudasuchus fossil have been found. fossil found near the end of Arkoudasuchus time. show us that they migrated to the USA there having too face terror birds dead on in the battle of food but the brains won over  muscles.Also the climate changed into a dry wasteland with little water to hid in the Arkoudasuchus  rappelled declined to nothing