Crocodile zarpent

The crocodile zarpent (Dracops crocomimus) is a terrestrial crocodile-like carnivorous magnasaur endemic to Eastern Cowura. It is a member of the Ophiasuchidae, a family of crocodile-like snakes that included the extinct Ophiasuchus.

Description
Like other ophiasuchids, the crocodile zarpent was heavily armoured for a snake, though unlike other ophiasuchids, the crocodile zarpent had long limbs suggesting a cursorial (i.e. running) locomotion. It also had large sickle-like claws on its hind limbs like those on the extinct raptors, meaning that they were used to slash at prey or to help climb onto victims. The crocodile zarpent was a large magnasaur, measuring approximately 10 feet (3 meters) long from head to tail and weighing 180 pounds (80 kilograms). The crocodile zarpent was puke green in color, but with a pear green underbelly and shamrock green stripes, it also had a yellow circle around its eyes. It had saw-like tooth designed to slice a chunk of meat out of its prey.

Diet
The crocodile zarpent is a carnivore that hunted medium-sized animals. Although primarily feeding on sauramphastids, reports of its dietary habits demonstrate a wide variety of prey selectivity and specialization depending on habitat and season. The diet of the crocodile zarpent in the wild have been studied by analyzing their unique feces, which resembles black and yellow cement and varies in size depending on what it eats. Feces that were collected and analyzed were found to contain rodent bones and scales from other magnasaurs. It was now known that they fed on young marmophants, other magnasaurs, and the occasional sauramphastids.

Behaviour
Crocodile zarpents are highly social creatures that live in packs consisting up to 20 individuals and the rarest case being 50 members in each pack. They are also very cooparative and help each member while hunting or feeding. Packs generally establish large hunting grounds in order to survive, and also large territories to keep distance from other packs. They show their territories by creating barks on trees and leaving excrement. Territory and hunting grounds size vary on the amount of prey available and the age of the pack's juveniles. The crocodile zarpent usually hiss before and after hunting to assemble their packs. Aggressive zarpents are characterized by the use of vocalization, body posture, and scent.

Reproduction
Crocodile zarpents are monogamous, mated pairs usually remaining together for life. Should one of the pair die, another mate is found quickly. As with most magnasaurs (excluding the sea dragons which are ovoviviparous), the crocodile zarpent lays up to 14 eggs, but roughly 20% of them survive, while the others are broken or consumed by predators and rival crocodile zarpents.