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 …

The defining masterwork on the evolution of reptiles. Over 300 million years ago, an early
land vertebrate developed an egg that contained the embryo in an amnion, allowing it to be …

Molecular and morphological evidence has shown that the African slender-snouted, or
sharp-nosed, crocodile Mecistops cataphractus (Cuvier, 1824) is comprised of two …

Ancient DNA is transforming our ability to reconstruct historical patterns and mechanisms
shaping modern diversity and distributions. In particular, molecular data from extinct …

The unique outer ear of crocodylians consists of a large meatal chamber (MC) concealed by
a pair of muscular earlids that shape a large part of the animal's head. This chamber is …

During systematic paleontological surveys in the Na Duong Basin in North Vietnam between
2009 and 2012, well-preserved fossilized cranial and postcranial remains belonging to at …

The known fossil record of crocodyliforms in Europe during the Paleogene is significantly
biased, in that the fauna of Western Europe is far better sampled and understood compared …

Crocodylians are known to consume and modify bones, but actualistic observations of their
bite marks have been limited to forensic case studies and surveys of two taxa: Crocodylus …

We describe two new osteolaemine crocodylids from the Early and early Middle Miocene of
Kenya: Kinyang mabokoensis tax. nov.(Maboko, 15 Ma) and Kinyang tchernovi tax …

A 50 m thick stratigraphic section at Ngira, near Karungu on the shore of Lake Victoria in
western Kenya, documents the early Miocene paleoenvironments of the area. The basal …