#crocodylomorpha — Public Fediverse posts

#Archovember Day 29: Araripesuchus rattoides

#paleoart #palaeoart #dinosaur #art #dinovember #Araripesuchus #Notosuchia #Crocodylomorpha #Pseudosuchia

#Archovember Day 24: Araripesuchus wegeneri

#paleoart #palaeoart #dinosaur #art #dinovember #Araripesuchus #Notosuchia #Pseudosuchia #Crocodylomorpha

Tracing multiple evolutionary trajectories in aquatic crocodiles https://phys.org/news/2023-11-multiple-evolutionary-trajectories-aquatic-crocodiles.html

Limited convergence in the postcranium of aquatic #Crocodylomorpha https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.12678

"#thalattosuchians and #dyrosaurids differ greatly from each other in their adaptations and functional capacities, but they also diverge greatly from present-day #crocodiles"

Archovember Day 11: Macrospondylus bollensis

#paleoart #palaeoart #dinosaur #art #dinovember #Macrospondylus #Crocodylomorpha

#NewResearch Sheds Light on Enigmatic #Jurassic #Crocodile Relatives
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/macrospondylus-bollensis-12362.html

Evaluating growth in #Macrospondylus bollensis (#Crocodylomorpha, Teleosauroidea) in the Toarcian Posidonia Shale, Germany https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/spp2.1529

"juvenile, subadult and adult individuals show nearly equal growth in many areas of the body... We call this isometric growth, which is unusual in #vertebrates.”

Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new species of Torvoneustes (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) from the Kimmeridgian of #Switzerland

https://dx.doi.org10.7717/peerj.15512

#paleobiology #paleontology #JurassicLife #EvolutionaryStudies #Crocodylomorpha #fossils

https://peerj.com/articles/15512/ via @PeerJ

#Jurassic Sea #Crocodile #Fossil Found in UK https://www.sci.news/paleontology/turnersuchus-hingleyae-11610.html

A new early diverging #thalattosuchian (#Crocodylomorpha) from the Early Jurassic and implications for the origin and #evolution of the group https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2022.2161909

#Thalattosuchians likely first appeared in the #Triassic and survived the end-Triassic mass #extinction. However, no digs have found them in Triassic rocks yet, which means there is a ghost lineage. Now we can reduce the ghost lineage by a few million years.

#NewPaper #Paleontology #FossilReptiles #Crocodylomorpha

Xiao-Chun Wu, Yan-Chao Wang, Hai-Lu You, Yu-Qing Zhang & Lai-Ping Yi (2022)
New brevirostrines (Crocodylia, Brevirostres) from the Upper Cretaceous of China
Cretaceous Research 105450

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105450
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667122003147

#NewPaper #Paleontology #Crocodylomorpha

Pochat-Cottilloux, Y., Martin, J. E., Amiot, R., Cubo, J., & de Buffrénil, V. (2022). A survey of osteoderm histology and ornamentation among Crocodylomorpha: A new proxy to infer lifestyle? Journal of Morphology, 284, e21542. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21542

#newpaper

Johnson, M. M., Foffa, D., Young, M. T., & Brusatte, S. L. (2022). The ecological diversification and evolution of #Teleosauroidea (#Crocodylomorpha, #Thalattosuchia), with insights into their mandibular #biomechanics. #Ecology and #Evolution, 12, e9484. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9484