Kosmodraco dakotensis Variante:Pintado a mano suggesting it was an efficient

suggesting it was an efficient carnivore that preyed on other dinosaurs

with likely well-developed feathers on its arms

The reduction of forelimbs in different lineages—carcharodontosaurids

Its tusks were shorter and less curved than those of mammoths

Kosmodraco dakotensis Variante:Pintado a mano suggesting it was an efficientKosmodraco dakotensis was a freshwater choristodere from the Palaeocene of North America. It was originally described as Simoedosaurus dakotensis and was later reassigned to the genus Kosmodraco. This animal was neither a dinosaur nor a crocodile, although its general appearance may have superficially resembled that of certain predatory aquatic reptiles. It belonged to Choristodera, a lineage of semi aquatic diapsids that survived the end Cretaceous