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Voay

Voay was an extinct Malagasy crocodylian with conspicuous horn-like structures behind the eyes.

Voay was an extinct Malagasy crocodylian with conspicuous horn-like structures behind the eyes. Its skull gives it a distinctive appearance without needing invented fantasy armor.

Voay at a glance

Diet
Carnivore
Its feeding structures are interpreted as adapted to taking animal prey.
When it lived
Holocene
Group
Crocodylia
Crocodylia

Beyond the game

The real Voay

Voay was an extinct Malagasy crocodylian with conspicuous horn-like structures behind the eyes. Its skull gives it a distinctive appearance without needing invented fantasy armor.

The cranial projections behind the eyes distinguish its skull. The selected Voay robustus was an extinct crocodylian with its own identity, separate from living crocodiles.

Fossil discoveries

Madagascar · approximate locationMadagascar · approximate location
Madagascar

Selected fossil records · present-day map

Map references

Paleobiology Database · C. C. Mook. 1921. Description of a skull of the extinct Madagascar crocodile, Crocodilus robustus Vaillant and Grandidier. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 44:25-33 ↗

Paleobiology Database · A. Grandidier and L. Vaillant. 1872. Sur le crocodile fossile d’Amboulintsatre (Madagascar). Comptes Rendus de l’Academie des Sciences de Paris 75:150-151 ↗

Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.

Sources & text credits

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  1. Hekkala etal2021: paleogenomics of extinct horned crocodile Voay robustus

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