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10879533

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6789
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-7-31
pubmed:abstractText
Although the image of crocodyliforms as 'unchanged living fossils' is naive, several morphological features of the group are thought to have varied only within narrow limits during the course of evolution. These include an elongate snout with an array of conical teeth, a dorsoventrally flattened skull and a posteriorly positioned jaw articulation, which provides a powerful bite force. Here we report an exquisitely preserved specimen of a new taxon from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar that deviates profoundly from this Bauplan, possessing an extremely blunt snout, a tall, rounded skull, an anteriorly shifted jaw joint and clove-shaped, multicusped teeth reminiscent of those of some ornithischian dinosaurs. This last feature implies that the diet of the new taxon may have been predominantly if not exclusively herbivorous. A close relationship with notosuchid crocodyliforms, particularly Uruguaysuchus (Late Cretaceous, Uruguay) is suggested by several shared derived features; this supports a biogeographical hypothesis that Madagascar and South America were linked during the Late Cretaceous.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
22
pubmed:volume
405
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
941-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
A pug-nosed crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar.
pubmed:affiliation
Evelyn T. Stone University College, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois 60605, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.