#mekosuchinae — Public Fediverse posts
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Jagten einige Urzeit-Krokodile von Bäumen aus? Fossilfunde in Australien legen semi-arboreale Lebensweise nahe. #Krokodil #Baumkrokodil #Urkrokodil #Mekosuchinae #Palaeontologie #Fossil
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Jagten einige Urzeit-Krokodile von Bäumen aus? Fossilfunde in Australien legen semi-arboreale Lebensweise nahe. #Krokodil #Baumkrokodil #Urkrokodil #Mekosuchinae #Palaeontologie #Fossil
https://www.scinexx.de/news/biowissen/jagten-einige-urzeit-krokodile-von-baeumen-aus/ -
Jagten einige Urzeit-Krokodile von Bäumen aus? Fossilfunde in Australien legen semi-arboreale Lebensweise nahe. #Krokodil #Baumkrokodil #Urkrokodil #Mekosuchinae #Palaeontologie #Fossil
https://www.scinexx.de/news/biowissen/jagten-einige-urzeit-krokodile-von-baeumen-aus/ -
Jagten einige Urzeit-Krokodile von Bäumen aus? Fossilfunde in Australien legen semi-arboreale Lebensweise nahe. #Krokodil #Baumkrokodil #Urkrokodil #Mekosuchinae #Palaeontologie #Fossil
https://www.scinexx.de/news/biowissen/jagten-einige-urzeit-krokodile-von-baeumen-aus/ -
Jagten einige Urzeit-Krokodile von Bäumen aus? Fossilfunde in Australien legen semi-arboreale Lebensweise nahe. #Krokodil #Baumkrokodil #Urkrokodil #Mekosuchinae #Palaeontologie #Fossil
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Fearsome Cleaver-Headed #Crocodiles Once Inhabited Central Australia https://www.sci.news/paleontology/baru-iylwenpeny-12308.html
The last Baru (#Crocodylia, #Mekosuchinae): a new species of ‘cleaver-headed crocodile’ from central #Australia and the turnover of #crocodylians during the Late #Miocene in Australia https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ftr/10.1002/spp2.1523
"Imagine a 4-5-m-long Indo-Pacific #crocodile, but with a shorter, deeper snout and very large, backward pointing teeth, and a generally heavier, gnarly-looking head. That’s Baru!"
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One of the things that makes Baru iylwenpeny so special is that we have a lot of it. There are seven skulls, and dozens of postcranial bones This makes it the single most completely known mekosuchine crocodile in Australia, if not the world (there are apparently a lot of Mekosuchus inexpectatus bones - but little of it is published and I don't think there is a whole skull known).
#Mekosuchinae #crocodile #paleontology #Miocene #Alcoota #MegafaunaCentral
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Here is a picture of the holotype of Baru iylwenpeny being excavated. It comes from the fantastically rich, dense bonebed of Alcoota, a mass death assemblage from the Late Miocene (about 8 million years old) in central Australia
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I just had to buy this piece (artist: Elizabeth Dixon) which features a Dromornis bone and the skull of the new species of Baru which I am so close to naming (publication just weeks away). 2/2