The lower jaws are very elongated and narrow, forming a rigid structure as their dentaries touch each other at the midline, reinforcing the mandible against torsional forces. The rear of the skull is poorly known but a short quadrate, separated from the quadratojugal by a large foramen quadraticum, shows it must have been low. The nostrils are long, narrow and horizontally positioned the same is true of the larger antorbital fenestra. The internal bone shelves of the maxillae meet each other over a long distance, forming a closed front palate rigidifying the snout. The skull is reminiscent of that of crocodilians that eat mainly fish. The upper jaw shows a prominent kink just behind the rosette, protruding to below this convexly curved part of the maxilla has the longest teeth of the entire skull. Further back, there are at least twenty-two teeth per upper jaw side in the maxilla, while the entire lower jaw side carries thirty-two teeth in the dentary bone.
The tip of the snout was enlarged sideways and carried a "rosette" of longer teeth, seven per side in the skull and about the same number in the corresponding part of the lower jaw. The jaws have about 122 conical teeth, pointed but not very sharp and curving slightly backward, with fine serrations. Suchomimus was a large meat eating dinosaur found in Africa and dating. In particular, this discovery illustrates that a large carnivore that lived on land could survive eating mostly fish.Suchomimus had a very long, low snout and narrow jaws, formed by a forward expansion of the premaxilla and the anterior ramus of the maxilla. The Jurassic World Evolution: Herbivore Dinosaur Pack adds sociable plant eaters. Other paleontologists say that the discovery of Suchomimus is important as it illustrates the diversity of dinosaurs. It probably would swim after fish or catch them on land similar to a grizzly bear and then kill it using its massive arms.Suchomimus lived 105 million years ago and this skeleton is the most complete in existence of any of the spinosaur family of dinosaurs. Long, powerful arms ended in three-fingered hands with huge claws, which would have been useful for holding on to large gar fish, which may have made up part of its diet. It had a long snout filled with teeth that seem designed to catch fish.
"It was a dinosaur trying hard to be a crocodile," says paleontologist Paul Sereno after he discovered a Suchomimus tenerensis during an expedition to Africa. It seems to be a close relative to Spinosaurus, and looks very similar to this star of Jurassic Park III. Suchomimus, however, lacked the tall spines and sail of its famous cousin since its vertebrae were much smaller. Suchomimus ("crocodile mimic") was a spinosaurid dinosaur.
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