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New paper led by PhD student on the neuroanatomy of fossil + extant gavialoid crocodylians & its relationship with their ecology, with implications for the group's evolutionary relationships: https://t.co/O9V6fponm6 🐊 + -funded

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2023-03-17

We identified muscle attachments on the pelvis and hindlimbs and built the musculature in 3D! Based on those 3D muscles and muscle architectural data of crocodylians and lizards we estimated muscle parameters for our musculoskeletal simulations. 5/15

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2023-01-25

I noticed from the 3rd Dinosaur Revolution episode a handful of generic semi-aquatic crocs. True crocodylians appeared in the Cenomanian, so I wanted to see how many were around before/during/after to see if they were lazily added in the show.

They were not. So many of them...

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2023-01-07

How does a crocodylian eye size up to its socket? And why do crocs have 12+ eye muscles? Find out in a new paper by Donald Cerio and Larry Witmer:
https://t.co/hu09UV57wb

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2022-12-23

Riojasuchus tenuisceps for Day 3 of themed Art Challenge! ( I may have put too much Crocodylian influence on it lol )

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2022-10-03

🚨🐊New croc species alert! 🐊🚨

Meet Titanochampsa iorii, a new mesoeucrocodylian from the Late Cretaceous of the Bauru Group (Brazil)! Check the link below to access the paper led by our PhD student Thiago Fachini. And follow the thread for more🧵👇

https://t.co/57juZtsj7b

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2022-09-27

The fourth and final paper from my PhD thesis is now published in Journal of Anatomy! In this study, I described the neuroanatomy of the awesome The paper is too! (1/3)

https://t.co/XHYGQbC5dJ

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2022-08-30

‘Ear stones’ in crocodylians - a cross-species comparative and ontogenetic survey of otolith structures: https://t.co/SKOlSgLUC6

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2022-03-28

"On the homology of crocodylian post-dentary bones and their macroevolution throughout Pseudosuchia", new paper by P. Bona et al. published in

https://t.co/bQTpU27F0D

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2022-02-25

I'm very curious about this, since I've just reconstructed Suchomimus and Cristatusaurus with pelican/crocodylian-like throat pouches. But if the dentaries were that close together, would it mean such pouches couldn't be present as far forward along the snout?

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2022-01-11

Way over word count so OUT comes text on difference between & crocodylians and how it relates to position of thalattosuchians. So stupid & complicated but I have to keep explaining it because no-one else ever does [famous Pyrakowski art attached]

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2021-12-31

Highlight on one of our highest IOB
scorers in the last 2 years:

Body Length Estimation in and Its Implication for Sexual Maturity and the Maximum Sizes

by Iijima & Kubo
https://t.co/7XzrtyaFh1

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2021-12-22

The gharial specimens we studied both showed nasal septum deviation, but to very different degrees. Comparing nasal septum thickness in gharials to other crocodylians, it was pretty clear that gharials sacrificed septum width to make room for everything else in their snouts.

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2021-11-30

New paper on baby crocodile ears!!!🐊👂
Just in time before submitting the thesis. Check it out if you are interested in how the bony labyrinth of the inner ear changes from hatchling to adult crocodylians.

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2021-11-29

"Australia’s prehistoric ‘swamp king’: revision of the Plio-Pleistocene crocodylian genus Pallimnarchus de Vis, 1886", new paper by J. Ristevski () et al. in describing the new crocodyloid genus

https://t.co/wXgsDBgjti

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2020-12-22

Dacentrurus

A stegosaur found in a clay pit, its known from multiple specimens, it was almost as large as stegosaurus but with smaller plates and long spikes growing along its tail

ALT: originally it was given this name, but that was changed because a crocodylian already had it

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2020-11-08

Crocodylians of the AMNH subway stop

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2018-01-24