Friday 18 April 2014

Brachychampsa Montana / Brachychampsa montana



Brachychampsa Montana
Illustration: Brachychampsa montana reptile

This ancient creature is extinct, and is now known as pre-historic, it is related to it's ancestors the alligators. That individual animal lived not so long before the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction that wiped out many of Earth's species some 65 million years ago.

Modern alligators look much the same as their 80-million-year-old ancestors.The first alligator ancestors evolved some 245 million years ago. About 80 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period, crocodilians appeared. This group includes alligatoroids, such as Brachychampsa, as well as their close relatives the crocodiles and caimans.

Many of these ancient animals were survivors of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction, though no one knows why they lived when so many others perished.

Size thought to be, compared to average man:
Illustration: Brachychampsa montana compared with adult man

There is not much information on this animal, as we were not around in the pre-historic era.

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