Old and inaccurate Sebecid illustration I did years ago! Head shape is slightly wrong and good lord those cow splotches!!! Langstonia and Sebecus were on my mind whilst scribbling this piece out.
#sebecus #langstonia #sebecid #crocodylomorph #sebecosuchian #pseudosuchian

A South American sebecid from the Miocene of Hispaniola documents the presence of apex predators in early West Indies ecosystems | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences The absence of terrestrial apex predators on oceanic islands led to the evolution of endemic secondary apex predators like birds, snakes and crocodiles, and loss of defence mechanisms among species. T...

An interesting new paper from Viñola López et al. describes a new #Miocene #sebecid 🐊 from the Caribbean & highlights the dispersal of these terrestrial crocs across the West Indies out of South America. ⬇️

#Paleontology #Biogeography #Cenozoic #Science

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Crocodile-like top predator's fossils found in Caribbean: "Indescribable" You wouldn't have been able to predict this looking at the modern ecosystem," said paper author and vertebrate paleontologist Jonathan Bloch.

#Predator #Croc #Sebecid #Fossils support theory that a Land Bridge extended from #SouthAmerica through to the #Caribbean Millions of years ago.

www.newsweek.com/fossils-pale...