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New paper led by @ES_UCL PhD student @palaeoburke 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 🐊 @royalsociety + @LeverhulmeTrust-funded
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
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...
‘Ear stones’ in crocodylians - a cross-species comparative and ontogenetic survey of otolith structures: https://t.co/SKOlSgLUC6 @Julia__Schwab @SteveBrusatte #RSOS #OpenAccess #palaeontology
Way over word count so OUT comes text on difference between #crocodylomorphs, #crocodyliforms & 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]
Highlight on one of our highest IOB
@altmetric scorers in the last 2 years:
#Vertebrae-Based Body Length Estimation in #Crocodylians and Its Implication for Sexual Maturity and the Maximum Sizes
by Iijima & Kubo
https://t.co/7XzrtyaFh1
#osteological #Crocodiles #paleobiology
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.
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.
#crocodile #innerear
@LeverhulmeTrust @GeosciencesEd