Emptying the wastebasket: a historical and taxonomic revision of the Jurassic crocodylomorph Steneosaurus

MM Johnson, MT Young… - Zoological Journal of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Teleosauroidea is a clade of ancient crocodylomorphs that were integral components of
coastal marine environments throughout the Jurassic. For nearly two centuries, one of the …

[HTML][HTML] The phylogenetics of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution

MM Johnson, MT Young, SL Brusatte - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Teleosauroidea was a clade of ancient crocodylomorphs that were a key element of coastal
marine environments during the Jurassic. Despite a 300-year research history and a recent …

Phylogenetic and spatial distribution of evolutionary diversification, isolation, and threat in turtles and crocodilians (non-avian archosauromorphs)

TJ Colston, P Kulkarni, W Jetz, RA Pyron - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2020 - Springer
Background The origin of turtles and crocodiles and their easily recognized body forms
dates to the Triassic and Jurassic. Despite their long-term success, extant species diversity …

Rise and fall of† Pycnodontiformes: Diversity, competition and extinction of a successful fish clade

JJ Cawley, G Marramà, G Carnevale… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract† Pycnodontiformes was a successful lineage of primarily marine fishes that broadly
diversified during the Mesozoic. They possessed a wide variety of body shapes and were …

Physiological constraints on body size distributions in Crocodyliformes

W Gearty, JL Payne - Evolution, 2020 - academic.oup.com
At least 26 species of crocodylian populate the globe today, but this richness represents a
minute fraction of the diversity and disparity of Crocodyliformes. Fossil forms are far more …

[HTML][HTML] A diverse assemblage of Ptychodus species (Elasmobranchii: Ptychodontidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Ukraine, with comments on possible …

M Amadori, O Kovalchuk, Z Barkaszi, L Giusberti… - Cretaceous …, 2023 - Elsevier
New isolated teeth from the Upper Cretaceous of Ukraine and belonging to the extinct
durophagous shark Ptychodus are described here. The taxonomic identification of the …

Paleocene resurrection of a crocodylomorph taxon: Biotic crises, climatic and sea level fluctuations

S Jouve, NE Jalil - Gondwana Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Postcranial material of a crocodylomorph from the Danian of Oulad Abdoun Basin (Morocco)
is described. Several characters, in particular the shape of its dorsal osteoderms, allows its …

The extinct shark, Ptychodus (Elasmobranchii, Ptychodontidae) in the Upper Cretaceous of central-western Russia—The road to easternmost peri-Tethyan seas

M Amadori, SV Solonin, AV Vodorezov… - Journal of vertebrate …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Isolated teeth belonging to the genus Ptychodus Agassiz, 1834 (Chondrichthyes;
Elasmobranchii) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Ryazan and Moscow Oblast regions …

Ten more years of discovery: revisiting the quality of the sauropodomorph dinosaur fossil record

DD Cashmore, PD Mannion, P Upchurch… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Spatiotemporal changes in fossil specimen completeness can bias our understanding of a
group's evolutionary history. The quality of the sauropodomorph fossil record was assessed …

An early cretaceous teleosauroid (Crocodylomorpha: Thalattosuchia) from Colombia

D Cortés, HCE Larsson, EE Maxwell, MLP Ruge… - Ameghiniana, 2019 - BioOne
Teleosauroid extinction at the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary has been hypothesized to be
an artifact of sampling only temperate paleolatitudes. Here, we describe the definitive …