Stomatosuchus

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Stomatosuchus

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Author: Moondawg

Keywords: extinct animals

Date Released: Feb 18 2009

Current StomatosuchusMD_2009.ztd dated 2 February 2009

File Size: 4.37mb

Compatibility: All game versions, although it will not be an egg in the original ZT.

Description:  Stomatosuchus inermis ("Weaponless Mouth Crocodile") was an enormous 12 meter long crocodilian from the Upper Cretaceous of Egypt.
It may have been a contemporary of the equally enormous Sarcosuchus imperator. Unlike its carnivorous relative, S. inermis was a baleen whale-like planktivore , as its jaws were built in a manner reminiscent of a pelican , in that the snout was long, but flat, like a lid, and the toothless lower jawbone is extremely thin, like a gasket, suggesting it supported a pouch like throat. Stomatosuchus inermis' had 2 to 3 centimeter long teeth only in its upper jaw, which could have been used to hold their prey (minnow-like fish) as water was forced back out of its mouth.

Unlike most other crocodilians, it is difficult to determine exactly what S. inermis ate. Its flattened skull had a long, flat, lid-like snout, which was lined with small, conical teeth. The mandible may have been toothless and may have supported a pelican-like throat pouch.

Unfortunately the only known specimen, a large skull, which was collected in German paleontologist Ernst Stromer's Egyptian expedition, was obliterated when the Munich Museum was destroyed during an Allied bombing raid in 1944.

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Additional info:

StomatosuchusMD_2009.ztd                       uca: 3FC5E026 dated 2 February 2009

Results From Configuration Checking:

3fc5e026.uca date: Mon Feb 02 18:38:02 2009
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Animal Type: 3FC5E026

Stomatosuchus inermis

It may have been a contemporary of the equally enormous Sarcosuchus imperator.
Unlike its carnivorous relative, S. inermis was a baleen whale-like
planktivore , as its jaws were built in a manner reminiscent of a pelican , in
that the snout was long, but flat, like a lid, and the toothless lower jawbone
is extremely thin, like a gasket, suggesting it supported a pouch like throat.
Stomatosuchus inermis' had 2 to 3 centimeter long teeth only in its upper jaw,
which could have been used to hold their prey (minnow-like fish) as water was
forced back out of its mouth.
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Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Aquatic; Location: Africa; Era: Cretaceous
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 95.
Animal can swim in water terrain.
Animal can swim in tanks.

Exhibit Preferences:

Foliage:
Water Lily, Water Reed, Bald Cypress Tree (DD), Horsetail (DD)
Sea Anemone (MM), Barnacles (MM), Beach Grass (MM), Brittle Sea Star (MM)
Clam Bed (MM), Orange Cup Coral (MM), Divercate Tree Coral (MM)
Feather Duster Worm (MM), Fire Coral (MM), Kelp (MM), Sea Lettuce (MM)
Red Gorgonian (MM), Sargassum (MM), Sand Dollar (MM), Sea Cucumber (MM)
Sea Star (MM), Seaweed (MM), Sea Grass (MM), Sea Sponge (MM)
Stove Pipe Sponge (MM), Tube Worm (MM), Purple Sea Urchin (MM)

Rocks:
Large Rock, Large Rock - 1, Large Rock - 2, Large Rock - 3, Large Rock - 4
Small Rock - Medium, Small Rock - Small, Small Rock - 7, Small Rock - 8
Small Rock - 9, Medium Aquatic Rock (DD), Small Ocean Floor Rock (MM)
Medium Coral Formation (MM), Large Ocean Floor Rock (MM)
Medium Ocean Floor Rock (MM), Large Coral Formation (MM), Iceberg (MM)
Isle Rock (MM)

Other specifically liked items:
Tank Filter (MM)

Exhibit Construction:

Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 1-2 with 200 squares for each adult.

Exhibit size (for 2 adults): 400 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 400 grid squares):
240 Fresh Water, 60 Dirt, 100 Sand

Foliage (for exhibit with 400 grid squares):
32 grid squares should contain foliage.
Foliage that would give the most happiness: Horsetail (DD)
Since this is a small plant, greatest happiness will occur
if each of the 32 grid squares contains 4 of this plant.

Rocks (for exhibit with 400 grid squares):
32 Small Rock - Small, which is its most liked rock.