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Sarcosuchus Fossil & 3D Skeleton
Sarcosuchus imperator
- Age
- Cretaceous, about 143.1–100.5 million years ago
- Found in
- Niger, Tunisia, Algeria
- Length
- 8.9 m
- Height
- 1.6 m
- Group
- Crocodilian relative (not a dinosaur)
How this 3D skeleton was made
This 3D model is a reconstruction. Most bone shapes (189 of 301) 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 189
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 on this site from freely usable materials (academic papers, out-of-copyright books, Wikimedia photos) (2026-10-05). Out of 301 bones (excluding teeth), 0 bones were shaped from photos, diagrams, or measurements of actual fossils of this species, 112 bones borrowed shapes from close relatives and were scaled, and 189 bones were estimated. Sources used: Wikimedia Commons (creators listed in figures.json) (CC BY 2.0 / CC BY 4.0 / CC BY-SA 3.0 / CC0 / Public domain). In addition, for restricted-access papers, only factual data such as reported dimensions were 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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