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New Crocodyliforms from Southwestern Europe and Definition of a Diverse Clade of European Late Cretaceous Basal Eusuchians

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PLOS ONE
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages -

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PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140679

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  1. Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [CGL2012-35199]
  2. US National Science Foundation [DEB 1257786-125748]
  3. project Estudio paleoambiental, faunistico y floristico del yacimiento del Cretacico Superior de Lo Hueco (Fuentes, Cuenca) [CGL2012-35199]
  4. SYNTHESYS Project - European Community
  5. Division Of Environmental Biology
  6. Direct For Biological Sciences [1257786] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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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.

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