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An overview of the crocodylian fossil record from Sardinia (Italy) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In the present contribution we focus on an overview of the Cenozoic crocodylians of Sardinia (Italy).Crocodylians from this Italian island have been published since the second half of the 19th Century anda number of papers reported on the presence of ...
Pillola, Gian Luigi   +7 more
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The oldest occurrence of Crocodylus in Madagascar and the Holocene crocodylian turnover

open access: yes, 2022
The island of Madagascar is home to a distinctive fauna and flora whose biogeographic history is not fully understood. Today’s crocodylian population consists of a single species, the Nile crocodile, Crocodylus niloticus, whose colonization of the island
Yohan Pochat-Cottilloux (12652209)   +6 more
core   +1 more source

The late Pleistocene horned crocodile Voay robustus (Grandidier & Vaillant, 1872) from Madagascar in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin [PDF]

open access: yesFossil Record, 2009
Crocodylian material from late Pleistocene localities around Antsirabe, Madagascar, stored in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, was surveyed. Several skeletal elements, including skull bones, vertebrae, ribs, osteoderms, and limb bones
C. Bickelmann, N. Klein
doaj   +3 more sources

Pleistocene reptile swim traces confirmed from South Africa’s Cape south coast

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Science, 2021
Large Pleistocene reptile tracks and traces were described from the Cape south coast of South Africa in 2020, including ‘probable swim traces’. These trace fossils were found on loose slabs and blocks of the Klein Brak Formation.
Charles W. Helm, Martin G. Lockley
doaj   +1 more source

The late Pleistocene horned crocodile Voay robustus (Grandidier & Vaillant, 1872) from Madagascar in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin [PDF]

open access: yesFossil Record, 2009
Crocodylian material from late Pleistocene localities around Antsirabe, Madagascar, stored in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, was surveyed. Several skeletal elements, including skull bones, vertebrae, ribs, osteoderms, and limb bones
C. Bickelmann, N. Klein
doaj   +1 more source

An Upper Cretaceous Juvenile Crocodylian in an Enigmatic Phosphatic Concretion Studied Through X-ray and Neutron Computed Tomography

open access: yes, 2022
The Hell Creek Formation is one of the most important vertebrate fossil deposits representing the Late Cretaceous world of western North America, but its smaller vertebrates are rarely preserved intact.
Allen, Ryan Christopher
core   +1 more source

Constitutive Innate Immunity and Systemic Responses to Infection of the American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)

open access: yesAnimals
Uninfected alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) exhibited high constitutive levels of hepatic gene expression related to immune function, whereas the highest-expressed hepatic genes of uninfected mice were related to metabolism.
Mark Merchant   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Video data: Crocodylian locomotor kinematics

open access: yes, 2019
Movies of all experimental trials of crocodylian locomotion from the reference below. See Dataset S2 in that paper's supplementary information (included here as .xlsx file) for codes for video names corresponding to species, individuals and trial numbers;
John Hutchinson (99766)
core   +1 more source

Combined Support for Wholesale Taxic Atavism in Gavialine Crocodylians [PDF]

open access: yesSystematic Biology, 2003
Morphological and molecular data sets favor robustly supported, contradictory interpretations of crocodylian phylogeny. A longstanding perception in the field of systematics is that such significantly conflicting data sets should be analyzed separately.
John, Gatesy   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The affinities of the Late Triassic Cryptovaranoides and the age of crown squamates

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2023
Most living reptile diversity is concentrated in Squamata (lizards, including snakes), which have poorly known origins in space and time. Recently, †Cryptovaranoides microlanius from the Late Triassic of the United Kingdom was described as the oldest ...
Chase D. Brownstein   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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