Fossil Extinct Crocodile Skull

PALAEOCENE PERIOD, 66-56 MILLION YEARS B.P.

17 3/4 in. (4.94 kg, 45 cm).

The upper part of a fossil Argochampsa krebsi crocodile skull on a sandy matrix wrapped in a plaster field jacket. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From Morocco, North Africa.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Footnotes

Argochampsa or 'Argo crocodile' is an extinct genus of eusuchian crocodylomorph, usually regarded as a gavialoid crocodilian, related to modern gharials. It lived in the Paleocene of Morocco. Described by Hua and Jouve in 2004, the type species is A. krebsi. Argochampsa had a long narrow snout, and apparently marine in its behaviour.

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