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Crocodylus porosus
Learn more about Crocodylus porosus
- Is a saltwater or Estuarine Crocodile that lived 3 million years ago to present day.
- Grows up to 7m in length.
- Teeth adapted for aquatic prey such as fish and turtles.
- Meat eater, an ambush predator.
- Small crested bony armour along its back called osteoderms.
- Fossils of Crocodylus porosus have been found alongside those of Pallimnarchus, the giant freshwater crocodile.
- Found throughout northern tropical coastal Australia.
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