▪ Abstract A review of crocodylian phylogeny reveals a more complex history than might
have been anticipated from a direct reading of the fossil record without consideration of …

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 …

INTRODUCTION Crocodilians and birds are the two extant clades of archosaurs, a group
that includes the extinct dinosaurs and pterosaurs. Fossils suggest that living crocodilians …

Abstract The Late Cretaceous was a time of tremendous global change, as the final stages
of the Age of Dinosaurs were shaped by climate and sea level fluctuations and witness to …

While the crocodyliform lineage extends back over 200 million years (Myr) to the Late
Triassic, modern forms—members of Eusuchia—do not appear until the Cretaceous …

Morphological and molecular data sets favor robustly supported, contradictory
interpretations of crocodylian phylogeny. A longstanding perception in the field of …

Cranial fragments associated with the holotype of Necrosuchus ionensis reveal a dorsally
shifted foramen aereum on the quadrate and a long, slender descending process of the …

The crocodyliform Shamosuchus is known from numerous Late Cretaceous localities in
southern and eastern Mongolia and fragmentary remains from Uzbekistan. Seven species of …

We describe a new specimen of the fossil crocodyliform taxon Shamosuchus djadochtaensis
from the Late Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation. The new specimen consists of an almost …

The bizarre crocodyliform Simosuchus clarki shares several derived cranial characteristics
with basal notosuchian taxa. In the original phylogenetic analysis assessing placement of …