Journal article
New Crocodyliforms from Southwestern Europe and Definition of a Diverse Clade of European Late Cretaceous Basal Eusuchians
PloS one, Vol.10(11), pp.e0140679-e0140679
2015
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140679
PMCID: PMC4633049
PMID: 26535893
Abstract
The late Campanian-early Maastrichtian site of Lo Hueco (Cuenca, Spain) has provided a set of well-preserved crocodyliform skull and lower jaw remains, which are described here and assigned to a new basal eusuchian taxon, Lohuecosuchus megadontos gen. et sp. nov. The reevaluation of a complete skull from the synchronous site of Fox-Amphoux (Department of Var, France) allows us to define a second species of this new genus. Phylogenetic analysis places Lohuecosuchus in a clade exclusively composed by European Late Cretaceous taxa. This new clade, defined here as Allodaposuchidae, is recognized as the sister group of Hylaeochampsidae, also comprised of European Cretaceous forms. Allodaposuchidae and Hylaeochampsidae are grouped in a clade identified as the sister group of Crocodylia, the only crocodyliform lineage that reaches our days. Allodaposuchidae shows a vicariant distribution pattern in the European Late Cretaceous archipelago, with several Ibero-Armorican forms more closely related to each other than with to Romanian Allodaposuchus precedens.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- New Crocodyliforms from Southwestern Europe and Definition of a Diverse Clade of European Late Cretaceous Basal Eusuchians
- Creators
- Iván Narváez - Grupo de Biología Evolutiva, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Madrid, SpainChristopher A Brochu - Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of AmericaFernando Escaso - Grupo de Biología Evolutiva, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Madrid, SpainAdán Pérez-García - Grupo de Biología Evolutiva, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Madrid, SpainFrancisco Ortega - Grupo de Biología Evolutiva, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- PloS one, Vol.10(11), pp.e0140679-e0140679
- DOI
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0140679
- PMID
- 26535893
- PMCID
- PMC4633049
- NLM abbreviation
- PLoS One
- ISSN
- 1932-6203
- eISSN
- 1932-6203
- Publisher
- United States
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2015
- Academic Unit
- Earth and Environmental Sciences; University College Courses
- Record Identifier
- 9983984537102771
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