mesoeucrocodylian
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mesoeucrocodylian (plural mesoeucrocodylians)
- (zoology) Any of a group of mostly extinct crocodylomorphs of the clade Mesoeucrocodylia.
- 2002 September, Ronald S. Tykoski, “Calsoyasuchus valliceps, a new crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, volume 22, number 3, page 593:
- The new species possesses a combination of primitive and derived features that helps to fill wide morphological and temporal gaps in early mesoeucrocodylian history.
- 2005 June, James O. Farlow, “Femoral dimenstions and body size of Alligator mississippiensis: Estimating the size of extinct mesoeucrocodylians”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, number 2, page 354:
- For mesoeucrocodylians known on the basis of incomplete skeletal remains, body size is generally estimated from skull length-total length relationships in extant crocodylians (Webb and Messel, 1978; Woodward el al., 1995; Sereno et al., 2001).
- 2015, Gordon Grigg, Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians[1], page 43:
- The mesoeucrocodylians were known previously as the Mesosuchia.