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New research on paratympanic sinuses in juvenile Alligator by Rui Tahara and Hans Larsson. Read about the comprehensive paratympanic sinus system in posthatched alligator using enhanced CT data, part of our upcoming special issue on crocodyliforms
https://t.co/LEZLhUvjVU

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2022-05-20

Saliendo del horno: "#Crocodyliformes and from the of the Duero Basin (northwestern Spain): an update of their diversity and stratigraphic context"
https://t.co/kDvVX0LvpQ
Poniendo al día los y del de la Cuenca del

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2022-03-23

FASCINATING!! Abdominal contents reveal Cretaceous crocodyliforms ate dinosaurs

https://t.co/MgWP704Yan

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2022-02-16

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

Neuroanatomy of Zulmasuchus querejazus and insights on the paleoecology of sebecosuchian sby Yohan Pochat-Cottilloux et al.:
https://t.co/jm9dsXw0NS

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2021-12-03

N is for Notosuchus, a terrestrial crocodyliform with heterodont dentition from the Cretaceous of Argentina. It’s possible this croc was omnivorous or maybe even herbivorous.

📸 Barrios et al., 2018: https://t.co/dC3ZLsdixD

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2021-10-16

🐊Welcome to taouzensis, a new "peirosaurid crocodyliform from the Mid-Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of Morocco", which reveals data about the diversity of Gondwanan notosuchians. Paper from Nicholl and coleagues - https://t.co/RrjNdURhqD

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2021-10-14

Fascinating work by on using bite marks to investigate Crocodyliform feeding apparatus. Visiting a croc farm and feeding them bones sounds like fun field work!

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2021-05-01

🐊📔🚨Paper alert : new fossil croc species

New baurusuchid (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia)
-Late Cretaceous
-Bauru Basin of

https://t.co/RiajdRAn7C

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2021-04-20

Como es costumbre al finalizar el año, hacemos inventario de los nuevos reptiles mesozoicos ibéricos descritos en 2020:

https://t.co/x97G9AlNQw

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2020-12-31

"Paleoneurology of (Crocodyliformes: Baurusuchidae), ontogenetic variation, brain size, and sensorial implications" by Dumont Jr. et al. in The Anatomical Record

https://t.co/BiaThVZNhe

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2020-11-20

C is for Caipirasuchus, a crocodyliform from the Cretaceous of Brazil with particularly weird teeth. Most crocs are homodont (all their teeth look kind of the same), but Caipirasuchus is heterodont.

📸 et al 2014: https://t.co/3aU3GapYAA

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2020-10-04

A is for Aegisuchus, a surfboard headed crocodyliform from the Cretaceous of Morocco with unusual ornamentation on the top of its head.

📸 by Henry Tsai in and Gardner 2012: https://t.co/gWGZiVoC9u

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2020-10-01

Welcome to furatus, a new crocodyliform from the Upper Cretaceous of Catalonia (Spain) - "A small Cretaceous crocodyliform in a nesting ground and the origin of sebecids"



https://t.co/yqfYnCcPhr

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2020-09-18

"A unique predator in a unique ecosystem: modelling the apex predator within a Late crocodyliform‐dominated fauna from Brazil", new paper on the biomechanics of by F. Montefeltro et al. in

https://t.co/4WHhORLCrv

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2020-04-08

Great paper (https://t.co/maF9IARGHk) on the inner skull cavities of from the upper 🐊Find one of the extant comparative specimens here: https://t.co/LB43OHCKrp

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2019-03-02

A new crocodyliform found in the Morrsion Fm. of Wyoming represents the first occurrence of the atoposaurid Theriosuchus morrisonensis in North America. Published today in Geology of the Intermountain West https://t.co/F8R84nf6JY art by

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2018-12-22

Also for Here is Rhacheosaurus gracilis, one of the four species of thalattosuchian crocodyliform from the Solnhofen Formation, Late Jurassic (Tithonian) of Germany. Notice the cloudy eye is indicating the nictitating membrane

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2018-01-19