Crocodiles are known to be one of the rarest reptiles in the world, and their ancestors have lived on Earth for hundreds of millions of years, when humans may not have even sprouted. In the evolutionary history of crocodiles, there are countless powerful species born, and because of a variety of reasons and extinction, such as the Prussian crocodile, the emperor crocodile, etc., these crocodiles have a common feature, which is also the most prominent feature of the existing crocodiles in the village, that is, most of them are crocodiles living in fresh water. It seems that from beginning to end, crocodiles crawl on land in our eyes, murderous overlords lurking in fresh water.
But there are some crocodiles are different from this, they have been extinct for a long time, they are not known, today Xiaobian for everyone to introduce a kind, that is, from the ancient times of the king Of The Machimo crocodile. Judging by the fossils that have been found, the Macimo crocodile can reach 9.6 meters in length and weigh 2.7 tons, its head is very long, its snout is thinner, and its mouth has two rows of short, rounded sharp teeth. The nose of the Marchimo crocodile grows at the top of the front of the head to facilitate its breathing on the surface of the sea, and the eyes are also on the top of the head, similar to existing crocodiles. The body of the Marchimo crocodile is slender, but the tail is long and wide, which can provide strong power when the tail swings from side to side. On both sides of the body of the Machimo crocodile there are two pairs of webbed limbs at the front and back, and its main role is to maintain the balance of the body and steering. As a powerful marine creature, the Macimo crocodile is the largest known sea crocodile, and other sea crocodiles living in the Mesozoic Era are smaller than it, such as the famous ground lizard crocodile.
The earliest fossils of the Macimo crocodile were found in Switzerland in the early 19th century, named after the famous German paleontologist von Schüner, which is the largest crocodile-shaped superorder known during the Jurassic period. There are currently 5 species in the genus Macimo Crocodile, and the Monarch Macimo Crocodile is the newly named species and the largest species. Judging from the fossils of the Macimo crocodile, which once lived in today's Switzerland, France, Britain, Portugal, Germany, Austria and Morocco, it seems that it has its shadow throughout Europe. The distribution of the Macimo crocodile is related to the distribution of land and sea in the late Jurassic to early Cretaceous period, when the Sea of Tethys flooded present-day Europe and northern Africa, and this ocean became home to the Marchimo crocodile.
From the appearance, the monarch Marchimo crocodile seems to have adapted to life in the ocean at that time, and it was able to swim quickly underwater. In addition, in the deep sea, the food of the Macimo crocodile is very complex, their skulls are large, their teeth are short and thick, and their bite force is very strong enough to crush the hard shell of the turtle. The food of the Macimo crocodile is not limited to the small fish and shrimp in the ocean, they will also be like today's crocodiles ambushed under the water near the shore, waiting for the careless dinosaur to arrive, and then launch a surprise attack to drag the other party under the water and drown.
The discovery of the Monarch Marchimo crocodile is of great significance to biologists, its appearance not only refreshed people's understanding of the Mesozoic sea crocodile, but also made people realize that the Marchimo crocodile lived until the early Cretaceous Period, and before that, there were many views that at the end of the Jurassic Period, the Marchimo crocodile had an extinction event, and from the fossils found today, the Marchimo crocodile not only survived the difficult period but also became larger and stronger, which led to the King Marchimo crocodile.