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For this let me introduce 𝑇𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑒𝑦𝑎𝑒, a newly described thalattosuchian crocodylomorph, from the Pliensbachian of the UK!

Appreciate the amazing paleoart by and follow the thread 👇🧵

Paper: https://t.co/0O1mo9mGD7

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2023-01-21

Mosasaurines aren’t the only marine reptiles to have developed this feature too- highly marine-adapted thalattosuchians had them, as well as polycotylid plesiosaues

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2022-04-12

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

It has been an amazing week for thalattosuchian research!!!🐊Two papers on their sensory systems got published by the Masters students and Thomas Cowgill. Very happy to have been part of their projects.

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2021-08-26

During the Jurassic, ca.180 million years ago, some crocs called thalattosuchians moved from land to water, becoming open-ocean swimmers. Just like whales did 100+ million years later.

Our team has a new study out today in , detailing this evolutionary transition.

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2020-04-21

My first paper in 2020 was released today. and I describe the first late Tithonian thalattosuchian from Europe and discuss the teleosauroid diversity
50 free pdfs: https://t.co/0VL0yZOEym

Art: Dmitry Bogdanov (Wikipedia)

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2020-01-03

Work in progress with and . This is a figure for a manuscript on historical teleosaurid specimens from Germany and England which is about ready for submission.

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2018-10-08

Endocranial anatomy of Pelagosaurus (Crocodyliformes, Thalattosuchia) https://t.co/DV8P9ofnrX vía

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2017-04-25