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The Fossil Record of Crocodylians (Reptilia: Crocodylia) in Greece
2021The fossil record of crocodylians from Greece is reviewed herein. Currently absent from the extant herpetofauna of the country (and the whole Europe), however, fossil record attests that crocodylians were present, even if rare and poorly represented (only isolated teeth and one osteoderm have been found so far) during the Miocene.
Georgalis, Georgios L, Delfino, Massimo
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King of the Crocodylians: The Paleobiology of Deinosuchus
PALAIOS, 2003David R. Schwimmer, 2002, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 240 p. (Hardcover, $45.00) ISBN: 0-253-34087-X In a media world driven by dinosaurs, crocodyliforms have finally made the big time. The giants and oddities of the group have appeared in feature articles in National Geographic (e.g., Flynn and Krause, 2000; Sereno, 2001) and on television
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Systematics and biogeography of crocodylians from the Miocene of Panama
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2013ABSTRACT Despite the fact that fossil crocodylians have been recovered from the Panama Canal Zone starting with initial excavations in 1912, detailed studies have been lacking. Recent excavations of the canal have resulted in new discoveries of many vertebrate fossils, including the first known Miocene crocodylian skulls from Central America.
Alexander K. Hastings +4 more
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The importance of data sampling and analysis in resolving crocodylian relationships
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2008Axel Janké
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Biogeography and Comparative Phylogeography of New-World Crocodylians
2020Biogeography is an area of study dedicated to understanding the evolutionary processes that resulted in current organismal distribution patterns. In general, exclusively terrestrial and exclusively aquatic vertebrates have well-studied and defined biogeographic patterns in the New World, but the biogeography of semiaquatic organisms is still poorly ...
Fábio de Lima Muniz +5 more
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Phylogenetic Approaches Toward Crocodylian History
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2003▪ Abstract A review of crocodylian phylogeny reveals a more complex history than might have been anticipated from a direct reading of the fossil record without consideration of phylogenetic relationships. The three main extant crocodylian lineages—Gavialoidea, Alligatoroidea, Crocodyloidea—are known from fossils in the Late Cretaceous, and the group ...
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Allometric growth of limb and body proportions in crocodylians
Journal of Zoology, 2019AbstractCrocodylia is the sole extant remnant of quadrupedal archosaurs playing a pivotal role in understanding the evolution of growth allometry in the archosaur locomotor apparatus. However, among crocodylians, the postnatal growth of the postcranial skeleton has almost exclusively been examined in Alligator mississippiensis, and whether other ...
M. Iijima, T. Kubo
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A Middle Jurassic ‘sphenosuchian’ from China and the origin of the crocodylian skull
Nature, 2004The skull of living crocodylians is highly solidified and the jaw closing muscles are enlarged, allowing for prey capture by prolonged crushing between the jaws. Living species are all semi-aquatic, with sprawling limbs and a broad body that moves mainly from side-to-side; however, fossils indicate that they evolved from terrestrial forms.
James M, Clark +3 more
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Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians
Choice Reviews Online, 2015Grigg, Gordon, Kirshner, David
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