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CRETACEOUS RESEARCH
Volume 65, Issue -, Pages 112-125Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2016.04.018
Keywords
Basal Eusuchia; Allodaposuchidae; Agaresuchus gen. nov.; Agaresuchus fontisensis sp nov.; Uppermost Cretaceous; Europe
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Funding
- project Estudio paleoambiental, faunistico y floristico del yacimiento del Cretacico Superior de Lo Hueco (Fuentes, Cuenca) [CGL2012-35199]
- SYNTHESYS Project
- European Community [FR-TAF 3521]
- US National Science Foundation [DEB 1257786-125748]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1257786] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The recently described Glade Allodaposuchidae includes European eusuchian crocodyliforms restricted to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian and Maastrichtian). A new allodaposuchid crocodyliform is here described based on two specimens from the upper Campanian lower Maastrichtian fossil site of Lo Hueco (Cuenca, Spain). This new taxon, Agaresuchus fontisensis gen. et sp. nov., is described by two complete skulls and a lower jaw associated with one of them. This new species can be distinguished unambiguously from Lohuecosuchus megadontos, the other allodaposuchid known from the same fossil site. The presence of two allodaposuchid crocodyliforms in Lo Hueco allows the recognition of the synchronic and sympatric existence of two representatives of this Glade for the first time. The new genus Agaresuchus, comprises a previously described Iberian allodaposuchid species, Allodaposuchus sub-juniperus, as Agaresuchus subjuniperus, new combination. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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