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The Cranial Osteology and Feeding Ecology of the Metriorhynchid Crocodylomorph Genera Dakosaurus and Plesiosuchus from the Late Jurassic of Europe
(Public Library of Science, 2012-09)
Background: Dakosaurus and Plesiosuchus are characteristic genera of aquatic, large-bodied, macrophagous metriorhynchid crocodylomorphs. Recent studies show that these genera were apex predators in marine ecosystems during ...
Morphology of the sacral region and reproductive strategies of Metriorhynchidae: A counter-inductive approach
(Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2017-02)
Morphological and physiological features indicate Metriorhynchidae as the only group of crocodylomorphs with a pelagic lifestyle. Some of these features have evolved convergently in several clades of tetrapods secondarily ...
The braincase and inner ear of ‘Metriorhynchus’ cf. ‘M.’ brachyrhynchus–implications for aquatic sensory adaptations in crocodylomorphs
(Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2021-06)
During their long evolutionary history crocodylomorphs achieved a great diversity of body sizes, ecomorphotypes and inferred feeding ecologies. One unique group of crocodylomorphs are the thalattosuchians, which lived ...
Morphology of the sacral region and reproductive strategies of Metriorhynchidae: a counter-inductive approach
(Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2017)
Convergent evolution and possible constraint in the posterodorsal retraction of the external nares in pelagic crocodylomorphs
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2020-06)
Amongst Mesozoic marine reptiles, metriorhynchid crocodylomorphs were unique in evolving into pelagically adapted forms with little-to-no posterodorsal retraction of the external nares. Narial retraction is a common ...
Braincase and endocranial anatomy of two thalattosuchian crocodylomorphs and their relevance in understanding their adaptations to the marine environment
(PeerJ Inc., 2018-11)
Thalattosuchians are a group of Mesozoic crocodylomorphs known from aquatic deposits of the Early Jurassic-Early Cretaceous that comprises two main lineages of almost exclusively marine forms, Teleosauridae and Metriorhynchoidea. ...