Barinasuchus was an echo of a bygone age. Following the end of the Mesozoic, South America was dominated largely by archosaur apex predators. Only later, did more mammalian predators rise up to fulfil these niches. But for a while, South America was dominated by sebecids, the large, terrestrial crocodiles, comparable, if not larger than the largest bears.
Barinasuchus itself is something of a mystery. Much of its holotype skeleton was destroyed when roadworkers tried to excavate it. As a result, only the front portion of its skull is well documented. But what a skull.
By examining what we have of barinasuchus, we can tell that it have a very strong, bite and a skull designed for the stresses of grappling with terrestrial prey, rather than what is seen in modern crocodilians whose skulls are designed for a strong bite and clamping down, adaptions for dragging prey into the water.
Barinasuchus also has more than one type of teeth, and in its lower jaw are large fang-like teeth which fit neatly into a notch in its top jaw. With adaptions like these, it is easy for one to imagine this apex predator ambushing prey and delivering devastating bites its victims could not recover from.
Our barinasuchus has been sculpted by the enormously talented Kex Studio, who have provided us a fantastic speculative look at what the rest of barinasuchus would have looked like based on other, closely-related sebecids. The long legs and easy gait this sculpt conveys shows the comfort with terrestiral locomotion these animals would have had, and the jaws, which are slightly ajar, display the formidable teeth.
Also on this sculpt is some incredible detail work. When deciding on a scale we went with 1:10 as any smaller, and some of the wonderful effort which went into creating this creature would have been lost to the naked eye. Astute model makers may notice the wrinkles in the skin between scales and osteoderms.
The model itself is a lovely 24cm long and is printed in solid resin at a 16k resolution, which preserves all of the fantastic scale work thanks to no cuts being made to the model.
The model comes with the pictured base which it is able able to stand freely on thanks to excellent balance.
We hope you really enjoy this fantastic model of a rarely offered species.
Barinasuchus was an echo of a bygone age. Following the end of the Mesozoic, South America was dominated largely by archosaur apex predators. Only later, did more mammalian predators rise up to fulfil these niches. But for a while, South America was dominated by sebecids, the large, terrestrial crocodiles, comparable, if not larger than the largest bears.
Barinasuchus itself is something of a mystery. Much of its holotype skeleton was destroyed when roadworkers tried to excavate it. As a result, only the front portion of its skull is well documented. But what a skull.
By examining what we have of barinasuchus, we can tell that it have a very strong, bite and a skull designed for the stresses of grappling with terrestrial prey, rather than what is seen in modern crocodilians whose skulls are designed for a strong bite and clamping down, adaptions for dragging prey into the water.
Barinasuchus also has more than one type of teeth, and in its lower jaw are large fang-like teeth which fit neatly into a notch in its top jaw. With adaptions like these, it is easy for one to imagine this apex predator ambushing prey and delivering devastating bites its victims could not recover from.
Our barinasuchus has been sculpted by the enormously talented Kex Studio, who have provided us a fantastic speculative look at what the rest of barinasuchus would have looked like based on other, closely-related sebecids. The long legs and easy gait this sculpt conveys shows the comfort with terrestiral locomotion these animals would have had, and the jaws, which are slightly ajar, display the formidable teeth.
Also on this sculpt is some incredible detail work. When deciding on a scale we went with 1:10 as any smaller, and some of the wonderful effort which went into creating this creature would have been lost to the naked eye. Astute model makers may notice the wrinkles in the skin between scales and osteoderms.
The model itself is a lovely 24cm long and is printed in solid resin at a 16k resolution, which preserves all of the fantastic scale work thanks to no cuts being made to the model.
The model comes with the pictured base which it is able able to stand freely on thanks to excellent balance.
We hope you really enjoy this fantastic model of a rarely offered species.
