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Goniopholis would have looked superficially quite similar to modern crocodilians, but it was actually quite a ways down the crocodile family tree. As a semiaquatic neosuchian living from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, it seems to have played a similar ambush-predator ecological role; again presaging what we see in modern crocodilians. One other important similarity, there is clear evidence that Goniopholis had reverted to being cold-blooded, again like living relatives but very different from Triassic croc-line archosaurs, which seem to have had elevated metabolisms.
