Insights into the ecology and evolutionary success of crocodilians revealed through bite-force and tooth-pressure experimentation

GM Erickson, PM Gignac, SJ Steppan, AK Lappin… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Crocodilians have dominated predatory niches at the water-land interface for
over 85 million years. Like their ancestors, living species show substantial variation in their …

Evolutionary structure and timing of major habitat shifts in Crocodylomorpha

EW Wilberg, AH Turner, CA Brochu - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Extant crocodylomorphs are semiaquatic ambush predators largely restricted to freshwater
or estuarine environments, but the group is ancestrally terrestrial and inhabited a variety of …

Osteohistological evidence for determinate growth in the American alligator

HN Woodward, JR Horner, JO Farlow - Journal of Herpetology, 2011 - BioOne
An external fundamental system (EFS) is a form of bone microstructure present in the
outermost cortex of long bones in animals that have attained skeletal maturity. It indicates an …

Crocodylian diversity peak and extinction in the late Cenozoic of the northern Neotropics

TM Scheyer, OA Aguilera, M Delfino, DC Fortier… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Abstract Northern South America and South East Asia are today's hotspots of crocodylian
diversity with up to six (mainly alligatorid) and four (mainly crocodylid) living species …

[КНИГА][B] Jurassic West: the dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and their world

J Foster - 2020 - books.google.com
The famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, formed one hundred and fifty million
years ago and running from Wyoming down through the red rock region of the American …

Maiasaura, a model organism for extinct vertebrate population biology: a large sample statistical assessment of growth dynamics and survivorship

HN Woodward, EAF Fowler, JO Farlow, JR Horner - Paleobiology, 2015 - cambridge.org
Fossil bone microanalyses reveal the ontogenetic histories of extinct tetrapods, but
incomplete fossil records often result in small sample sets lacking statistical strength. In …

Postcranial anatomy of Sebecus icaeorhinus (Crocodyliformes, Sebecidae) from the Eocene of Patagonia

D Pol, JM Leardi, A Lecuona… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
We describe postcranial remains of new specimens referred to Sebecus icaeorhinus found
in the lower section of the Sarmiento Formation at Cañadón Hondo (central Patagonia …

Early crocodylomorpha

RB Irmis, SJ Nesbitt, HD Sues - Geological Society, London …, 2013 - lyellcollection.org
Non-crocodyliform crocodylomorphs, often called 'sphenosuchians', were the earliest-
diverging lineages of Crocodylomorpha, and document the stepwise acquisition of many of …

The multi-peak adaptive landscape of crocodylomorph body size evolution

PL Godoy, RBJ Benson, M Bronzati, RJ Butler - BMC evolutionary biology, 2019 - Springer
Background Little is known about the long-term patterns of body size evolution in
Crocodylomorpha, the> 200-million-year-old group that includes living crocodylians and …

Sizing the Jurassic theropod dinosaur Allosaurus: Assessing growth strategy and evolution of ontogenetic scaling of limbs

PJ Bybee, AH Lee, ET Lamm - Journal of Morphology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Allosaurus is one of the most common Mesozoic theropod dinosaurs. We present a
histological analysis to assess its growth strategy and ontogenetic limb bone scaling. Based …