Return of the Fort Lee Phytosaur?

"Fort Lee Phytosaur," a massive fossil on display at The Museum of Natural History in New York which I saw for the first time on a school trip from School No. 1, shows just how long history has been made, here, along the Hudson.

That prehistoric creature: long, low-slung, menacing, met its match last weekend.

Can anyone identify the specimen in this photo?

The phytosaur became extinct millennia ago - and was replaced in nature by other creatures with long, slim, jaws, with rows of teeth: crocodiles and alligators.

Phytosaurs roamed the banks of what was much later named the Hudson River, lived, died, laid eggs, raised their young. 

One hundred years ago, before the George Washington Bridge linked Fort Lee to Manhattan Island, some adventurous geology students from Columbia University were studying the rock formations along the western banks of the Hudson, climbed down the Palisades.  One of them stopped briefly to respond to a private call of nature - and there he saw fossilized bone in the rock!

Later this fossil was identified as a Phytosaur.  With great difficulty, since there was no road along the Hudson, the block of stone containing the fossil was extricated from the riverbank and dragged up the cliffs to a truck, which took it to the Museum of Natural History, where it is still on display.

But what is this other creature which still lives today? The one in the photo came to Edgewater from Spain.

First correct answer wins a complimentary tour of the fossil halls of the Museum!

were studying the rock formations along the Western banks of the Hudson.