Quinkana

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Quinkana fortirostrum

• Queensland, Australia

Quinkana is a nordostaustralisches land crocodile of the Plio - Pleistocene and.

Features

Quinkana had a nose that was as long as wide and not flat. His teeth were ziphodonten sound like. Qinkana reached in the Pleistocene sizes of up to three meters, but was significantly greater in the Pliocene (5-7 m) and was one of the greatest hunters in Australia. Quinkana fed on large vertebrates, which it probably lay in wait at waterholes.

Species

Only the type Quinkana fortirostrum MOLNAR, 1981 is known. She was in their time been a living fossil, because all ziphodonten crocodiles outside of Oceania were already extinct.