Lives leave their marks in detailed, reproducible ways.” – Thomas Halliday The scars of life are there, with fractures sustained knitted together. The high-set eyes and nostrils speak of low swimming, peering, and breathing just above the water surface the long series of teeth, pointed but round, and set in a long, sweeping snout, suggest a feeding style of swiping, grabbing and holding prey, suitable for catching slippery fish. The buttressed processes and arches evoke Gothic architecture, here resisting not the weight of a cathedral roof but the powerful force of the jaw muscles. “To look at the skull of an extant freshwater crocodile is to read a character description.
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