There is no evidence to support that mekosuchines lived in the tree canopy or that they hunted by dropping on their prey from the trees like leopards can.

And to be clear about tree climbing - not talking here about mekosuchines being able to climb on a low branch along a river bank or a relatively short vertical obstacle. There are plenty of videos of extant crocs doing such feats, like alligators climbing over a fence for example (continued)

My then supervisor, Steve Salisbury, knew of an Indigenous speaker of those languages - Adrien Beattie- so we consulted Adrien to ensure we got the correct words, and their spelling and pronunciation right for Gunggamarandu maunala.

Gunggamarandu maunala was fun to coin. I don't speak Barunggam and Wakka Wakka, so I relied on a dictionary. However, not many words were translated in the dictionary for those languages, so I had to come up with a meaningful and (hopefully) cool name from the limited number of available words.

Paludirex is such a cool name! Credit goes to Adam Yates for coming up with the name Paludirex, he was one of my co-authors on that paper.

Hi all! I'm Jorgo, a palaeontologist that studies the evolution, anatomy, and taxonomic diversity of crocodylomorphs (i.e., crocodylians and their extinct relatives).