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A new crocodylian from the Early Eocene of eastern Queensland and a preliminary investigation of the phylogenetic relationships of crocodyloids.
The small, recently extinct, island-dwelling crocodilians of the south Pacific Darren Naish 2006
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A new crocodylian from the Early Eocene of eastern Queensland and a preliminary investigation of the phylogenetic relationships of crocodyloids.
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Yesterday, I read "The oldest African crocodylian: phylogeny, paleobiogeography, and differential survivorship through the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary" from the new JVP.
Addendum: 16 SOUND START greygirlbeast 2008
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The paper not only describes a new gavialoid, Ocepesuchus eoafricanus, the aforementioned oldest-known African crocodylian, from the Latest Cretaceous Moroccan phosphates.
Addendum: 16 SOUND START greygirlbeast 2008
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This giant crocodylian evolved to some kind of filter-feeder similar to the much earlier african Stomatosuchusand had a really strange skull with extremely flat and thin jaws.
Titanoboa, Part 2 James Gurney 2009
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The new species also reinforces the emerging view of high crocodylian diversity throughout the Neogene, and it represents one of the few extinct species referable to crown genus Crocodylus.
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A grainy black-and-white double-page spread showed an anaconda that had wrapped its crushing coils around a caiman and a tree, slowly squeezing the life out of the crocodylian.
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A grainy black-and-white double-page spread showed an anaconda that had wrapped its crushing coils around a caiman and a tree, slowly squeezing the life out of the crocodylian.
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A Plio-Pleistocene crocodile from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, represents a new extinct species and shows that high crocodylian diversity in Africa persisted after the Miocene.
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The fossil record reveals surprising crocodile diversity in the Neogene of Africa, but relationships with their living relatives and the biogeographic origins of the modern African crocodylian fauna are poorly understood.
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