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Crocodylian remains from the Miocene of the Fore-Carpathian Basin and its foreland—including the world’s northernmost Neogene crocodylian

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
The geographic distribution of Crocodylia in Europe throughout the Cenozoic experienced fluctuations in the extension of its northern limit. Whereas crocodylians reached very high latitudes during the early Eocene (78ºN), their northward extension was ...
Marcin Górka, Jakub Březina, Milan Chroust, Rafał Kowalski, Sergi López-Torres, Mateusz Tałanda   +5 more
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The invasive spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus) in Florida, United States: invasion timeline, insights, and implications for Everglades restoration

Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science
The spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus) is a crocodylian native to Central and South America that has been introduced and established (reproducing in the wild) in several insular (i.e., Cuba, Puerto Rico, San Andres) and continental (i.e., Florida ...
Sergio A. Balaguera-Reina, Edison D. Bonilla-Liberato, Bryna L. Daykin, Frank J. Mazzotti   +3 more
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New early Pleistocene Alligator (Eusuchia: Crocodylia) from Florida bridges a gap in Alligator evolution

, 2020
Stout, Jeremy B. (2020): New early Pleistocene Alligator (Eusuchia: Crocodylia) from Florida bridges a gap in Alligator evolution. Zootaxa 4868 (1): 41-60, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4868.1.
Stout, Jeremy B.
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Crown Clades in Vertebrate Nomenclature: Correcting the Definition of Crocodylia [PDF]

Systematic Biology, 2008
Wiens, J. J. 2001. Character analysis in morphological phylogenetics: Problems and solutions. Syst. Biol. 50:689–699. Wiens, J. J., and R. E. Etheridge. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships of hoplocercid lizards: Coding and combining meristic, morphometric, and polymorphic data using step matrices. Herpetologica 59:375– 398. Wiens, J. J., and M.
Martin, Jeremy E., Benton, Michael J.
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Morphometric analysis of the Rio Apaporis Caiman (Reptilia, Crocodylia, Alligatoridae)

, 2015
Escobedo-Galván, Armando H., Velasco, Julián A., González-Maya, José F., Resetar, Alan (2015): Morphometric analysis of the Rio Apaporis Caiman (Reptilia, Crocodylia, Alligatoridae). Zootaxa 4059 (3): 541-554, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.3.
González-Maya, José F., Velasco, Julián A., Resetar, Alan, Escobedo-Galván, Armando H.   +3 more
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Exploring the cranial morphology and possible convergences of Triassic non‐crocodylomorph pseudosuchians (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) with other sauropsids through linear morphometrics

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Triassic pseudosuchians had highly diversified cranial morphologies. These archosaurs occupied diverse ecological roles, ranging from terrestrial predators and herbivores to semiaquatic ambush predators and possible waders. Here, we apply linear cranial morphometrics to assess possible convergences with other sauropsids from the clades ...
Rafael Terras, Rodrigo Temp Müller, Leonardo Kerber, Mirian Carbonera   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative endocranial anatomy in the crocodylians Leidyosuchus canadensis and Stangerochampsa mccabei from the upper Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
Leidyosuchus canadensis and Stangerochampsa mccabei share endocranial features such as posterior projection of a neurovascular canal in the maxilla and a paratympanic sinus system most similar to those of small‐bodied and young extant crocodylians, suggesting that these pedomorphic features may reflect the ancestral crocodylian condition.
G. Donzé, G. Perrichon, P. Vincent, F. Therrien, J. E. Martin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Functional morphology and biomechanics of the locomotor apparatus in the large Late Triassic carnivore Postosuchus kirkpatricki (Archosauria: Rauisuchidae)

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
A three‐dimensional model is used to analyze the locomotor biomechanics of the large Late Triassic archosaurian reptile Postosuchus kirkpatricki. The study finds that it is more uncertain than previously concluded whether it was quadrupedal or bipedal, and plantigrade or digitigrade, but it clearly had locomotor specializations including large hindlimb
John R. Hutchinson, Emily Faughey, Matthew Humpage, Tristan Dupuis, Oliver E. Demuth, Romain Pintore, Francois Clarac   +6 more
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A new alligatoroid from the Eocene of Vietnam highlights an extinct Asian clade independent from extant Alligator sinensis [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
During systematic paleontological surveys in the Na Duong Basin in North Vietnam between 2009 and 2012, well-preserved fossilized cranial and postcranial remains belonging to at least 29 individuals of a middle to late Eocene (late Bartonian to ...
Tobias Massonne, Davit Vasilyan, Márton Rabi, Madelaine Böhme   +3 more
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A description of dental microanatomy and implantation geometry in Chamaeleonidae

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
A reassessment of the dental histology in adult chamaeleons reveals the presence of periodontal ligament. Alongside alveolar bone and cementum, these tissues together constitute a compacted and remodelled tripartite periodontium. Our findings include the novel observation of plicidentine‐like protuberances of dentine within underlying bone.
Giles D. Sukkert, Ilaria Paparella, Michael R. Doschak, Aaron R. H. LeBlanc, Michael W. Caldwell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source