AR Dinosaurs - Group D
Pallimnarchus / Paludirex*
Scientific name: Pallimnarchus / Paludirex* (uncertain taxonomy)
Age: 4 million — 40,000 years ago
Size: 6 – 7 metres long
Location: Found across central, eastern and northern Australia
Pallimnarchus is a giant freshwater crocodile with a thick skull, large conical teeth, and thick square armour plates called osteoderms. It was a large vertebrate hunter and part of the extinct crocodile group called mekosuchine crocodilians which inhabited Australian inland rivers and lakes during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. Currently two species known. Recently a new name has been proposed for specimens referred to as Pallimnarchus. Paludirex is another name that has been proposed.
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Varanus priscus (Megalania)
Scientific name: Varanus priscus (Giant Monitor Lizard)
Age: Pleistocene Epoch (200,000 – 41,000 years ago)
Size: 6 metres long
Location: Central and northern Australia
Megalania (Varanus priscus) was a giant goanna that had large curved and serrated teeth used to grip and rip flesh from its victims. It also had a bony armour of osteoderms (bone skin) covering its body. Megalania was the largest known land-dwelling lizard to have ever existed. Megalania was closely related to the living Komodo Dragon and both evolved in Australia.
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Diprotodon optatum
Scientific name: Diprotodon optatum
Age: 1 million - 41 000 years ago
Size: Up to 3.8 metres long
Location: Found across Australia
The world's largest marsupial, Diprotodon was a distant relative of modern-day wombats and koalas. The plant-eater walked on four feet, had two huge tusks in its lower jaw, and had a pouch (possibly backwards-facing). Joey Diprotodon would have been very large, possibly up to 40-80kg.
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Giant Macropus
Scientific name: Macropus (new species)
Age: 60 000 - 41 000 years ago
Size: Up to 2.7 metres tall
Location: South Walker Creek, northeastern Queensland
The Giant Macropus is a new species of enormous kangaroo, reaching up to 2.7 metres tall. It had peculiar deer-like or cassowary-like sharp claws on its huge feet, making them formidable weapons. Based on the limb bones that have been found, the Giant Macropus could weigh up to 275kg.
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