Fierce debate surrounds the history of organisms in the southern hemisphere; did
Gondwanan break-up produce ocean barriers that imposed distribution patterns on …

The idea that South America was an island continent over most of the Cenozoic, during
which its unusual mammalian faunas evolved in isolation, is outstandingly influential in …

Diverse crocodyliforms have been discovered in recent years in Cretaceous rocks on
southern landmasses formerly composing Gondwana. We report here on six species from …

A new notosuchian crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous Bauru Group found in the
southeastern State of São Paulo (Brazil) is described here. The new taxon, Caipirasuchus …

Late Mesozoic palaeobiogeography has been characterized by a distinction between the
northern territories of Laurasia and the southern landmasses of Gondwana. The repeated …

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 …

Abstract Aim To evaluate the Gunnerus Ridge land‐bridge hypothesis, which postulates a
Late Cretaceous causeway between eastern Antarctica and southern Madagascar allowing …

Overseas dispersals are often invoked when Southern Hemisphere terrestrial and
freshwater organism phylogenies do not fit the sequence or timing of Gondwana …

Simosuchus clarki is a small, pug-nosed notosuchian crocodyliform from the Late
Cretaceous of Madagascar. Originally described on the basis of a single specimen including …

The Early Cretaceous fauna of Victoria, Australia, provides unique data on the composition
of high latitude southern hemisphere dinosaurs. We describe and review theropod dinosaur …