My then supervisor, Steve Salisbury, knew of an Indigenous speaker of those languages - Adrien Beattie- so we consulted Adrien to ensure we got the correct words, and their spelling and pronunciation right for Gunggamarandu maunala.

Gunggamarandu maunala was fun to coin. I don't speak Barunggam and Wakka Wakka, so I relied on a dictionary. However, not many words were translated in the dictionary for those languages, so I had to come up with a meaningful and (hopefully) cool name from the limited number of available words.

Paludirex is such a cool name! Credit goes to Adam Yates for coming up with the name Paludirex, he was one of my co-authors on that paper.

Hi all! I'm Jorgo, a palaeontologist that studies the evolution, anatomy, and taxonomic diversity of crocodylomorphs (i.e., crocodylians and their extinct relatives).