Quinkana fortirostrum

Quinkana fortirostrum - Quinkana

 * Time of Extinction: ~40.000 ya
 * Ecozone: Australasian
 * Range: (Northern) Australia
 * Island Taxa: NO
 * Megafauna: YES
 * Genus Extinct: Yes
 * Family Extinct: No, Subfamily Extinct
 * Order Extinct: No
 * Closest Living Relatives: Crocodylidae
 * Conservation Status of Closest Living Relative: ?
 * Time diverged from Closest Living Relative: ?

Existence over past 50.000 years:
''Each cell represents 1.000 years. If the bottom-right cell is filled the species went extinct after 1500 AD.''

Description
Quinkana is an extinct genus of mekosuchine crocodylians that lived in Australia from about 24 million to about 40,000 years ago. By the Pleistocene, Quinkana had become one of the top terrestrial predators of Australia, possessing long legs and ziphodont teeth (lateromedially compressed, recurved, and serrated). Quinkana comes from the "Quinkans", a legendary folk from Aboriginal myths.