Don't have an answer other than to say their lineage is sturdy enough to have pulled it off twice - crocodylomorpha were just about the only survivors of their

Don't have an answer other than to say their lineage is sturdy enough to have pulled it off twice - crocodylomorpha were just about the only survivors of their giant and dominant clade in the end-Triassic extinction and, of course, they made it past the asteroid 135 million years later.