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Crocodilians, Fossil

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Crocodilians --- Crocodiles, Fossil

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Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians is a comprehensive review of current knowledge about the world's largest and most famous living reptiles.Gordon Grigg's authoritative and accessible text and David Kirshner's stunning interpretive artwork and colour photographs combine expertly in this contemporary celebration of crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials. This book showcases the skills and capabilities that allow crocodylians to live how and where they do. It covers the biology and ecology of the extant species, conservation issues, crocodylian-human interaction and the evolutionary his

Crocodilians. --- Crocodilians --- Crocodiles. --- Crocodiles --- Crocodylinae --- Crocodylidae --- Crocodilia --- Crocodylia --- Loricata (Reptiles) --- Reptiles --- Evolution.

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Fauna. Zoological determination guides --- Reptiles --- Crocodilians --- Hides and skins. --- Identification.

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New material attributable to Deltasuchus motherali, a neosuchian from the Cenomanian of Texas, provides sampling across much of the ontogeny of this species. Detailed descriptions provide information about the paleobiology of this species, particularly with regards to how growth and development affected diet. Overall snout shape became progressively wider and more robust with age, suggesting that dietary shifts from juvenile to adult were not only a matter of size change, but of functional performance as well. These newly described elements provide additional characters upon which to base more robust phylogenetic analyses. The authors provide a revised diagnosis of this species, describing the new material and discussing incidents of apparent ontogenetic variation across the sampled population. The results of the ensuing phylogenetic analyses both situate Deltasuchus within an endemic clade of Appalachian crocodyliforms, separate and diagnosable from goniopholidids and pholidosaurs, herein referred to as Paluxysuchidae. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Crocodilians, Fossil. --- Paleontology --- Cretaceous --- Cretaceous Period --- Mesosuchia --- Reptiles, Fossil --- paleontology --- pedagogy