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Deinosuchus Fossil & 3D Skeleton
Deinosuchus riograndensis
- Age
- Cretaceous, about 83.6–72.2 million years ago
- Found in
- USA, Mexico
- Length
- 5.8 m
- Height
- 0.9 m
- Group
- Crocodilian group (Alligator relative / Not a dinosaur)
How this 3D skeleton was made
This 3D model is a reconstruction. Most bone shapes (255 of 367) are estimated from close relatives and published reconstructions. The bone shapes are not the actual shapes of this species' fossils. 112 are borrowed from close relatives.
From this species 0Borrowed from relatives 112Estimated 255
Bones known from fossils
There is no record yet of which bones are known from fossils.
Tap a bone on the 3D page to see where each bone shape came from.
Sources
- 3D Skeleton: A reconstruction created for this site (2026-10-05) from freely usable materials (scientific papers, public domain books, and Wikimedia photos). Out of 367 bones (excluding teeth), 0 were modeled directly from photos, diagrams, and measurements of actual fossils of this species; 112 were scaled using bone shapes from close relatives; and 255 were estimated. Sources used: Wikimedia Commons (authors listed in figures.json) (CC BY 2.0 / CC BY 4.0 / CC BY-SA 3.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC0 / Public domain) / Holland 1909 Annals of the Carnegie Museum 6:281-294 Deinosuchus hatcheri, a new genus and species of crocodile from the Judith River beds of Montana (archive.org/details/DeinosuchusHatcheriANewGenusAndSpeciesOfCrocodileFromTheJudithRiv) (out of copyright: published before 1929, author died in 1932) / Mohler, McDonald, Wolfe 2021 PeerJ doi:10.7717/peerj.11302 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) / Walter, Massonne, Paiva, Martin 2025 Communications Biology doi:10.1038/s42003-025-07653-4 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). For other papers that cannot be freely reused, only factual information such as stated dimensions was referenced.
- Bones found: 0 bones are reported in the literature as fossil finds or visible in photographs (the rest have not been found, or are unknown from the literature)
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