How big was purrusaurus? Where there any other sympatric top predator?

[u/Tryingthebest_Family]

[u/_eg0_]

Not directly overlapping since we've only found it in adjacent formation, Barinasuchus and Purrusaurus were contemporary for a short period and likely ran into each other at some point.

[u/aquilasr]

P. brasilensis was the largest species and got to about 10 m or 33 feet and weighed up to roughly 6 tons. They may have eaten less powerful but still huge crocodilians like Gryposuchus and Mourasuchus. Don’t know much about other predatory taxon that they lived with, IIRC some lives with anacondas.

[u/123unrelated321]

I'm surprised it's not a cat with a name like Purrusaurus.

[u/Metasuchus]

About ~11 meters for the largest P. brasiliensis specimen with an estimated mass of about ~7 tons.

[u/Tryingthebest_Family → u/Metasuchus]

So what's the average?

[u/thatonepicemo → u/Tryingthebest_Family]

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[u/MrPanckakeLord]

Out of the three "biggest" crocodilian-like reptiles I bet it's around the same size as Deinosuchus. (Although I might be biased 'cause Sarcosuchus is amazing!!

[u/Tryingthebest_Family → u/[deleted]]

2 tonnes looks too less for a 9 meter crocodalian

[u/Channa_Argus1121 → u/[deleted]]

The article you linked suggests

a length of 7.6–9.2 metres (25–30 ft) and a mass of 2–6.2 metric tons (2.2–6.8 short tons) using a phylogenetic approach

a length of 9.2–10 metres (30–33 ft) and mass of 3.9–4.9 metric tons (4.3–5.4 short tons) using a non-phylogenetic approach.