Giant croc-like carnivore fossils found in the Caribbean

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.

Prehistoric Crocodile Fossil Shows Species Went Extinct 5 Million Years Later Than Thought

A sebecid tooth and two vertebraes found in the Dominican Republic show that the crocodile species persisted in the Caribbean after it died out in other areas.

Giant croc-like carnivore fossils found in the Caribbean

Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound—that's a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, they dominated South American landscapes after the extinction of dinosaurs until about 11 million years ago. Or at least, that's what paleontologists thought, until they began finding strange, fossilized teeth in the Caribbean.

Athletics and crocodile-like reptiles with bladed teeth made their last stand in the Caribbean 4.5 million years ago. New fossils dug up in the Dominican Republic suggest that the reptile group has gone extinct millions of years later than previously thought, researchers report [...]

Crocodile-Like Top Predator's Fossils Discovered in Caribbean: 'Indescribable'

Mysterious fossil teeth found in the Caribbean belong to a family of extinct, land-dwelling reptiles that look like what you might get if you crossed a crocodile with a greyhound dog.This is the conclusion of a team of paleontologists led from the University of Florida, who have revealed that the region provided a refuge for "sebecids" for at least five million years after the creatures went extinct everywhere else.Sebecids—some species of which…