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Another case of revealed in 2021 but finalized in 2022, Eptalofosuchus, a notosuchian recovered close to Sphagesauridae and known from a pretty neat looking mandible. Art by Júlia d'Oliveira, go check out her work @/tupandactylus.

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2023-01-01

Hyenasuchus or the Dog croc or Barbaros, is a wolf to lion sized pack hunting notosuchian of the HE, with packs ranging form 80-100 members living in a large burrowing network system to avoid larger predators from picking them off one by one, they are also highly intelligent.

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2022-02-18

For and check out this paper on the biomechanics of the Cretaceous South American notosuchian Araripesuchus by Nico Nieto, Federico Degrange, &
https://t.co/AdBgr5vNqh

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2021-10-22

🐊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

"Biomechanical performance of the cranio-mandibular complex of the small notosuchian Araripesuchus gomesii (Notosuchia, Uruguaysuchidae)" new paper by M.N. Nieto et al. in The Anatomical Record ()

https://t.co/T6KMkbD4ck

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2021-06-17

Pakasuchus had molar-like teeth that fit together to allow real chewing. It’s one of the most heterodont of the weird-toothed notosuchians, suggesting it might have been herbivorous.

📸 O’Connor et al, 2010: https://t.co/rtNedrq2XD

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2020-10-16

Fernandez Dumont et al. (2020) describe new specimens of the notosuchian Araripesuchus buitreraensis, from Argentinian Patagonia, revealing new morphological information. https://t.co/zJWyW5sCNt

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2020-05-08

Results from the
Jianchangosaurus (fighting), Ordosipterus, Yacareranis, Dineobellator (anting).

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2020-04-06

Sapient caenagnathoids can have little a notosuchian,
As a pet

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2020-02-28

More evidence for terrestriality in baurusuchids. Great to see notosuchian endocast/endocranial morphology being more explored!

Fonseca et al. (2020) Morphology of the endocranial cavities of Campinasuchus dinizi from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil https://t.co/8u49zcU1ep

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2020-01-22