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Description
The maximum size of Cuban crocodiles based on the largest measured skull from the Pleistocene, AMNH 6179. The estimate is based on the HW-TL regression of the genus Crocodylus. The HW correction is based on Webb & Messel (1978).

This species no longer attains such sizes and maxes out at about 3.5 meters in modern times.

Credits to Othodus Megalodno for providing the regression.

Sources:

Webb & Messel (1978). Morphometric analysis of Crocodylus porosus from the north coast of Arnhem Land, northern Australia

O'Brien et al. (2019). Crocodylian Head Width Allometry and Phylogenetic Prediction of Body Size in Extinct Crocodyliforms

Morgan & Albury (2013). The Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) from late Quaternary fossil deposits in the Bahamas and Cayman Islands

Description
The maximum size of Cuban crocodiles based on the largest measured skull from the Pleistocene, AMNH 6179. The estimate is based on the HW-TL regression of the genus Crocodylus. The HW correction is based on Webb & Messel (1978).

This species no longer attains such sizes and maxes out at about 3.5 meters in modern times.

Credits to Othodus Megalodno for providing the regression.

Sources:

Webb & Messel (1978). Morphometric analysis of Crocodylus porosus from the north coast of Arnhem Land, northern Australia

O'Brien et al. (2019). Crocodylian Head Width Allometry and Phylogenetic Prediction of Body Size in Extinct Crocodyliforms

Morgan & Albury (2013). The Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) from late Quaternary fossil deposits in the Bahamas and Cayman Islands