[HTML][HTML] Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem

JP Rio, PD Mannion - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
First appearing in the latest Cretaceous, Crocodylia is a clade of semi-aquatic, predatory
reptiles, defined by the last common ancestor of extant alligators, caimans, crocodiles, and …

Crocodyliformes and Testudines from the Eocene of the Duero Basin (northwestern Spain): An update of their diversity and stratigraphic context

F Ortega, I Armenteros, A de Celis, F Escaso… - Historical …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The Palaeogene sedimentary successions of the Duero Basin host an important record of
fossil vertebrates, especially mammals and reptiles. The main fossil sites are placed at the …

[HTML][HTML] Re-evaluation of the morphology and phylogeny of Diplocynodon levantinicum Huene & Nikoloff, 1963 and the stratigraphic age of the West Maritsa coal field …

T Massonne, M Böhme - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Abstract Diplocynodon levantinicum Huene & Nikoloff, 1963 was described based on few
bone fragments from the West-Maritsa lignite basin of Central Bulgaria. Huene & Nikoloff …

New data on the Miocene vertebrate assemblage of the Zaysan Basin (Central Asia) with implications for biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and paleobiogeography

O Kovalchuk, JD Divay, Z Barkaszi… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Zaysan Basin in Central Asia has a long geological history, and it has
therefore seen major climatic and evolutionary transformations. The Miocene fossil record of …

Geochemical investigation of the mixed Máriahalom vertebrate fauna at the Paleogene–Neogene boundary in the Central Paratethys: environmental conditions and …

L Kocsis, M Rabi, A Ulianov, A Cipriani… - Swiss Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
The fossil vertebrate fauna of Máriahalom contains remains from a wide range of ecologies
including terrestrial and aquatic mammals, crocodiles, sharks, and rays among others. All …

The last crocodylian in Central Europe? A new occurrence from the late Middle Miocene of the Vienna Basin (Austria)

M Harzhauser, UB Göhlich, M Gross… - Historical Biology, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
We present a new record of a crocodylian osteoderm from the Middle Miocene (Sarmatian)
of the Vienna Basin (Austria) and summarise the current knowledge of Sarmatian …

[PDF][PDF] Miocene crocodylian and marine turtle from Kienberg: First record from the Moravian part of the Vienna Basin

J Březina, M Chroust, T Szczygielski, V Hrazdil - Geologica Carpathica, 2024 - sav.sk
Kienberg (Middle Miocene, upper Badenian) represents one of the richest and most
significant paleontological localities of the marine Miocene in the Czech Republic. Despite …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative actualistic study hints at origins of alleged Miocene coprolites of Poland

T Brachaniec, D Środek, D Surmik, R Niedźwiedzki… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Excrement-shaped ferruginous masses have been recovered from the Miocene of Turów
mine in south-western Poland. These siderite masses have been the subject of much …

Updating the fossil record of the alligatoroid crocodylian Diplocynodon from the late Eocene of Transylvanian Basin

M Venczel - Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The basal alligatoroid crocodylian Diplocynodon kochi erected for incomplete three-
dimensional skull from the late Eocene (Priabonian) Cluj Limestone Formation in Romania …

[PDF][PDF] New data on Miocene crocodylians from the Fore-Carpathian Basin and its foreland

M Górka, J Březina, M Chroust, R Kowalski… - Neogene of Central and … - geo-zs.si
In Central Europe, the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum was surprisingly distinct, partially
due to favourable paleogeographic conditions–the connection with the Indo-Pacific …