Harpacochampsa
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Harpacochampsa is a poorly known Early Miocene crocodilian from the Bullock Creek lagerstätte of the Northern Territory, Australia. The current specimen consists of a partial skull and fragments of a
Harpacochampsa camfieldensis 2
Harpacochampsa camfieldensis (front) and Baru darrowi (back)
Harpacochampsa may have preferred deeper, slow moving waters like billabongs
Baru
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Baru, sometimes referred to as the cleaver-headed crocodile, is an extinct genus of Australian mekosuchine crocodilian. Its fossils have been found from various Late Oligocene and Miocene localities f
Harpacochampsa
…stratigraphic (fossil age) data that shows Harpacochampsa as a gavialid: The elongated snout of Harpacochampsa sets it apart clearly from the broad-snouted Baru darrowi. Unlike Baru, which inhabited the shallow streams of what is now Bullock Creek and hunted large mammals, Harpacochampsa was recovered from sediments…
Distribution of Baru wickeni (red) and Baru darrowi (blue) across Australia.
Reconstruction of Baru species. Top to bottom: B. iylwenpenny, B. darrowi, and B. wickeni.
With its massive jaws Baru was capable of taking even large prey.
Distribution of Baru wickeni compared to that of Australosuchus.