The new prototype was commissioned by the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, where it was recently installed. The addition of Deinosuchus schwimmeri allows us to provide a more detailed picture of this area's ecosystem in the Cretaceous Period." A Species Named for Decades of ResearchPaleontologists formally identified the "terror croc" as a distinct species in 2020 and named it Deinosuchus schwimmeri in Schwimmer's honor. The term pterodactyl is commonly used for the flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs, although these animals were not dinosaurs themselves. Their proximity also makes the Tellus Science Museum an especially fitting home for one of the first Deinosuchus fossil replicas.