Crocodylomorph Empire 2026

Long-time readers of Tet Zoo will perhaps be aware of my efforts, beginning in 2012 or something like that, to depict in a montage the diversity of crocodylomorphs extinct and extant. This whole thing actually started way back in 2001 when I published a terse but adequate review article of crocodylomorph diversity in Geology Today (Naish 2001). Caption: low-res section of the Crocodylomorph Empire poster. Now on sale, right now only for collection at DinoCon 2026. My aim since then has been to publish a big review of crocodylomorph diversity and fossil history. Maybe that’ll happen one day but you can understand that the topic is considered sufficiently niche that publishers generally don’t want to commit to an entire book on the group. Anyway, various versions of the montage have appeared since I compiled it, including in museum displays, on a T-shirt and in online articles. Caption: old versions of my big croc montage, this being the ‘vertical’ version designed for t-shirts… hence…