Simosuchus

So everyone remember the little guy called simosuchus and it is going to be in the current best prehistoric animal park building game ever prehistoric kingdom. This image is from the latest dev diary

So the March developer diary is out, and I'm pointlessly writing about it lie this is a blog. As the title may suggest, Simosuchus (the tiny herbivorous stem-crocodilian from Madagascar) is coming as a new exhibit animal.

Additionally, we get Gallimimus with 3 skins.

Additionally, herding is coming sometime in the near future.

More plants of various affinities are being added, here they are.

Holy smokes, this will be perfect for building a Walking with Dinosaurs park

And to end the day, more children.

But the question is why.

Let's take a look at its traits. It's small, it's compact, it's herbivorous. It's also naturally tough with those characteristic osteoderms on its back, and possibly lived in burrows as well. Not only this, but Simosuchus is a crocodylomorph, a very successful vertebrate group. Crocodylomorphs survived two mass extinction events with remarkable resilience, but Simosuchus didn't.

The question is, even with all of its good traits, adaptabilities, and advantages, why did Simosuchus die out during the K-PG extinction event while other crocodiles made it through.

If you think about it, the pug-nosed crocodile has a lot of the traits necessary for survival of the meteor impact. It's small, and the organisms that survived the extinction were all small and thus had a better chance to survive. It could possibly burrow, and a lot of burrowing animals like mammals, insects, small reptiles, etc. made it through because they could shelter from the impact and such. It's fully terrestrial and would've been able to hide in cover from the natural disasters started by the meteor. And lastly, it was a crocodile, which probably should've guaranteed its survival. Maybe if the meteor hadn't struck, Simosuchus would've been around for much longer.

Maybe it was its purely herbivorous diet that led to its demise, but then again there's no ruling out the possibility that Simosuchus could've been partly insectivorous or omnivorous. Maybe it was the isolated environment in Madagascar in which it lived, which meant that populations couldn't grow to a large extent.

So why do you think Simosuchus didn't make it pass the K-PG mass extinction.

I kept seeing this online and just thought it was funny idk

1: Mary anning

2: pixelized inostrancevia chasing scutosaurus

3: an ophidiophobe’s nightmare: Titanoboa

4: mastodonsaurus

5: ino and koolasuchus (size is not accurate but whatever)

6: happy simosuchus getting head rubs

Title

1. They burrow

2. Eat plant

3. Escape Predator

4. Smol

5. Cute

6. Committed hundreds of war crimes in Eurasia

7. Brown

8. Cute

9. Dirty

10. Runs around in arid environment

11. Predator is apex predator in its region

Can T-rex beat Simosuchus ?

No

Spinosaurus ?

No

CARCHAR ?

No !!!!!

Argentinosaurus ?

No !