The history, importance and anatomy of the specimen that validated the giant Purussaurus brasiliensis Barbosa-Rodrigues 1892 (Crocodylia: Caimaninae)

LGDE Souza, KLN Bandeira, RV Pêgas… - Anais da Academia …, 2021 - SciELO Brasil
Abstract The Solimões Formation is a southwest geological unit of the Brazilian Amazon,
being well-known for the Cenozoic giant eusuchian fossils. Among the eight species of …

Morphological and paleohistological description of a new Baurusuchidae specimen from the Adamantina Formation, Upper Cretaceous of Brazil

I Marchetti, R Delcourt, SAS Tavares, JF Canalli… - Journal of South …, 2022 - Elsevier
The baurusuchids were terrestrial notosuchian crocodyliforms from the Upper Cretaceous of
South America. The present study analyzes a partial postcranial skeleton, MPMA 62.0002 …

The first jurassic theropod from the sergi formation, jatobá Basin, Brazil

KLN Bandeira, AS Brum, RV Pêgas… - Anais da Academia …, 2021 - SciELO Brasil
Archosaur osteological remains are abundant in Brazil, particularly from the Triassic and
Cretaceous strata, but in Jurassic, the record is predominantly represented by ichnofossils …

A new vertebrate assemblage from the matute formation of the Cameros Basin (Ágreda, Spain): implications for the diversity during the jurassic/cretaceous boundary

E Puértolas-Pascual, M Aurell… - Journal of Iberian …, 2023 - Springer
The Ribota site (Ágreda, Soria, Spain) is a new locality in the Matute Formation (Tithonian–
Berriasian) composed of several carbonate layers, outstandingly rich in macrovertebrate …

A three-dimensional skeleton of Goniopholididae from the Late Jurassic of Portugal: implications for the Crocodylomorpha bracing system

E Puértolas-Pascual, O Mateus - Zoological Journal of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We here describe an articulated partial skeleton of a small neosuchian crocodylomorph from
the Lourinhã Formation (Late Jurassic, Portugal). The skeleton corresponds to the posterior …

Arthrological reconstructions of the pterosaur neck and their implications for the cervical position at rest

R Buchmann, T Rodrigues - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
The lack of any pterosaur living descendants creates gaps in the knowledge of the biology of
this group, including its cervical biomechanics, which makes it difficult to understand their …

The postcranial skeleton of Cerrejonisuchus improcerus (Crocodyliformes: Dyrosauridae) and the unusual anatomy of dyrosaurids

I Scavezzoni, V Fischer - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Dyrosauridae is a clade of neosuchian crocodyliforms that diversified in terrestrial and
aquatic environments across the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition. The postcranial anatomy …

New Cretaceous neosuchians (Crocodylomorpha) from Thailand bridge the evolutionary history of atoposaurids and paralligatorids

Y Pochat-Cottilloux, K Lauprasert… - Zoological Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The origin of modern crocodylians is rooted in the Cretaceous, but their evolutionary history
is obscure because the relationships of outgroups and transitional forms are poorly …

New Crocodylomorpha remains from the Late Jurassic Aliança Formation (Dom João stage), Jatobá Basin

AR de Araújo Carvalho, GR Oliveira… - Journal of South American …, 2021 - Elsevier
Up to date, at least 50 species of Crocodylomorpha are known in Brazil. Those species are
distributed in a temporal range from the Triassic to the present day. However …

New outcrop with vertebrate remains from Solimões Formation (Eocene–Pliocene), Southern Solimões Basin, Acre State, Northern Brazil

MB da Silva Lacerda, LG de Souza, LS Lobo… - Journal of South …, 2020 - Elsevier
Here we describe fossil vertebrate remains from a new Solimões Formation (Eocene-
Pliocene) locality, near the highway BR 364 at Sena Madureira municipality (Acre, Brazil) …