Kosmodraco dakotensis Variante:Pintado a mano incluyendo la morfología craneal

incluyendo la morfología craneal

suggesting it was an efficient carnivore that preyed on other dinosaurs

The reduction of forelimbs in different lineages—carcharodontosaurids

This would have allowed it to move efficiently in search of food

Although it didn't reach the defensive dimensions of its North American relative Stegosaurus

Kosmodraco dakotensis Variante:Pintado a mano incluyendo la morfología cranealKosmodraco dakotensis was a freshwater choristodere from the Palaeocene of North America. It was originally described as Simoedosaurus dakotensis and was later reassigned to the genus Kosmodraco. This animal was neither a dinosaur nor a crocodile, although its general appearance may have superficially resembled that of certain predatory aquatic reptiles. It belonged to Choristodera, a lineage of semi aquatic diapsids that survived the end Cretaceous