The recently discovered Dentaneosuchus was one of the two largest terrestrial predators after the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs. With an estimated length of about six meters, it was the same size as many of those iconic terrors. A distant relative of crocodilians, Dentaneosuchus belonged to Sebecidae, the same clade as the equally large South American Barinasuchus. It lived in France about forty million during the Eocene Epoch, and it was the largest carnivore on the continent.