The Gobiosuchidae in the early evolution of Crocodyliformes

LITERATURE CITED

• Buscalioni, A. D., and B. Chamero. 2009. Adaptación en cocodrilos Mesozoicos: un ensayo de interacción entre las jerarquías ecológica y genealógica; pp. 419–428 in H. Dopazo and A. Navarro (eds.), Evolución y Adaptación: 150 Años Después del Origen de las Especies. Editorial Obrapropia, Valencia, Spain.
   Google Scholar
• Buscalioni, A. D., and B. Chamero. 2016. Crocodylomorphs; pp. 162–169 in F. J. Poyato-Ariza and A. D. Buscalioni (eds.), Las Hoyas: A Cretaceous Wetland. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, Munich, Germany.
   Google Scholar
• Buscalioni, A. D., and F. Ortega. 1995. Crocodylomorphs; pp. 59–61 in M. Meléndez (ed.), Las Hoyas: A Lacustrine Konservat-Lagerstätte. Cuenca, Spain. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
   Google Scholar
• Buscalioni, A. D., and F. J. Poyato-Ariza. 2016. Relevance of Las Hoyas as a Mesozoic Lagerstätte; p. 13 in F. J. Poyato-Ariza and A. D. Buscalioni (eds.), Las Hoyas: A Cretaceous Wetland. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, Munich, Germany.
   Google Scholar
• Buscalioni, A. D., F. Ortega, B. P. Pérez-Moreno, and S. E. Evans. 1996. The Upper Jurassic maniraptoran theropod Lisboasaurus estesi (Guimarota, Portugal) reinterpreted as a crocodylomorph. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16:358–362.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Buscalioni, A. D., F. Ortega, B. P. Pérez-Moreno, and D. Rasskin-Gutman. 1995. The hand in the locomotion of terrestrial crocodiles; pp. 53–56 in Extended Abstracts, II International Symposium on Lithographic Limestones, Lleida-Cuenca (Spain) 9th–16th July, Ediciones de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
   Google Scholar
• Buscalioni, A. D., F. Ortega, D. Rasskin-Gutman, and B. P. Pérez-Moreno. 1997. Loss of carpal elements in crocodilian limb evolution: morphogenetic model corroborated by paleobiological data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 62:133–144.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Buscalioni, A. D., M. A. Martínez-Fregenal, A. Bravo, F. J. Poyato-Ariza, B. Sanchíz, A. M. Báez, O. Cambra Moo, C. Martín-Closas, S. E. Evans, and J. Marugán-Lobón. 2008. The vertebrate assemblage of Buenache de la Sierra (Upper Barremian of Serrania de Cuenca, Spain) with insights into its taphonomy and palaeoecology. Cretaceous Research 29:687–710.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Claessens, P. A. M. L., and M. K. Vickaryous. 2012. The evolution, development and skeletal identity of the crocodylian pelvis: revisiting a forgotten scientific debate. Journal of Morphology 273:1185–1198.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Clark, J. M. 1994. Patterns of evolution in Mesozoic Crocodyliformes; pp. 84–97 in N. C. Fraser and H.-D. Sues (eds.), In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
   Google Scholar
• Clark, J. M. 2011. A new shartegosuchid crocodyliform from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of western Colorado. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163:152–172.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Clark, J. M., X. Xu, C. A. Forster, and Y. Wang. 2004. A Middle Jurassic ‘sphenosuchian’ from China and the origin of the crocodilian skull. Nature 430:1021–1024.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cohen, M. M. 1993. Sutural biology and the correlates of craniosynostosis. American Journal of Medical Genetics 47:581–616.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Colbert, E. H., and C. C. Mook. 1951. The ancestral crocodilian Protosuchus. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 97:143–182.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cross, H. R., R. Cappello, and C. Rusbridge. 2009. Comparison of cerebral cranium volumes between cavalier King Charles spaniel with Chiari-like malformations, small breed dogs and Labradors. Journal of Small Animal Practice 50:399–405.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Diéguez, C., C. Martín-Closas, N. Mélendez, J. Rodriguez-Lázaro, and P. Trincao. 1995. Biostratigraphy; pp. 77–79 in M. N. Meléndez (ed.), Las Hoyas: A Lacustrine Konservat-Lagerstätte, Cuenca, Spain. Field Trip Guide Book July the 16th, II International Symposium on Lithographic Limestones, Lleida-Cuenca (Spain) 9th-16th July, Editado por Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
   Google Scholar
• Duffeau, D. 2011. The evolution of cranial pneumaticity in Archosauria: patterns of paratympanic sinus development. Ph.D. dissertation, College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.
   Google Scholar
• Efimov, M. B. 1983. Revision of fossil crocodiles of Mongolia [in Russian with English summary]. Sovmestnaâ Sovetsko-Mongol'skaâ Paleontologiceskaâ Ekspediciâ, Trudy 34:81–90.
   Google Scholar
• Efimov, M. B. 1988. On the fossil crocodiles of Mongolia and the USSR. Sovmestnai Sovetsko-Mongolskad Paleontologiieskad Ekspedicii, Trudy 34:8l–90. [ Russian, with English summary]
   Google Scholar
• Erickson, G. M. 1996. Toothlessness in American alligators, Alligator mississippiensis. Copeia 3:739–743.
   Google Scholar
• Fiorelli, L. E., and J. O. Calvo. 2007. The first ‘protosuchian’ (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes) from the Cretaceous (Santonian) of Gondwana. Arquivos do Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro 65:417–459.
   Google Scholar
• Fregenal-Martínez, M. A. 1998. Análisis de la cubeta sedimentaria de Las Hoyas y su entorno paleogeográfico (Cretácico Inferior, Serranía de Cuenca). Sedimentología y aspectos tafonómicos del yacimiento de Las Hoyas. Ph.D. dissertation, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 354 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Fregenal-Martínez, M. A., and N. Meléndez. 2000. The lacustrine fossiliferous deposits of the Las Hoyas sub-basin (Lower Cretaceous, Serranía de Cuenca, Iberian Ranges, Spain); pp. 303–314 in E. H. Gierlowski-Kordesch and K. Kelts (eds.), Lake Basins through Space and Time. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology 46.
   Google Scholar
• Gilmore, C. W. 1926. A new aëtosaurian reptile from the Morrison Formation of Utah. Annals of Carnegie Museum 3:25–344.
   Google Scholar
• Goswami, A., L. Foley, and V. Weisbecker. 2014. Patterns and implications of extensive heterochrony in carnivoran cranial suture closure. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26:1294–1306.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gow, C. E. 2000. The skull of Protosuchus haughtoni, an early Jurassic crocodyliform from southern Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20:49–56.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hall, M. I. 2008. The anatomical relationships between the avian eye, orbit and sclerotic ring: implications for inferring activity patterns in extinct birds. Journal of Anatomy 212:781–794.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hall, P. M. 1985. Brachycephalic growth and dental anomalies in the New Guinea crocodile (Crocodylus novaeguineae). Journal of Herpetology 19:300–303.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hay, O. P. 1930. Second bibliography and catalogue of the fossil Vertebrata of North America. Carnegie Institution Publications, Washington 1, 990 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Huchzermeyer, F. W. 2003. Crocodiles: Biology, Husbandry and Diseases. CABI Publishing, CAB International, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, South Africa, 352 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Hunt, A. P., and M. G. Lockley. 1995. A nonmarine tetrapod from the Middle Jurassic of the United States: a primitive crocodyliform from the Entrada Sandstone of eastern Utah. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15:554–560.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1999. International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, 4th edition. The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, 306 pp.
   Google Scholar
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 2012. Amendment of Articles 8, 9, 10, 21 and 78 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to expand and refine methods of publication. ZooKeys 219:1–10.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Irmis, R., S. J. Nesbitt, and H.-D. Sues. 2013. Early Crocodylomorpha; pp. 273–302 in S. J. Nesbitt, J. B. Desojo, and R. B. Irmis (eds.), Anatomy, Phylogeny and Palaeobiology of Early Archosaurs and Their Kin. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 379.
   Google Scholar
• Kälin, J. A. 1936. Über Skeletanomalien bei Crocodiliden. Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere 32:327–347.
   Google Scholar
• Künzel, W., S. Breit, and M. Oppel. 2003. Morphometric investigations of breed-specific features in feline skulls and considerations on their functional implications. Anatomia Histologia Embryologia 32:218–223.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Leardi, J. M., L. E. Fiorelli, and Z., Gasparini. 2015. Redescription and reevaluation of the taxonomical status of Microsuchus schilleri (Crocodyliformes: Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Neuquén, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 52:153–166.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lü, J., and X. Wu. 1996. Restudy of Shantungosuchus brachycephalus Young, 1982. Vertebrata Palasiatica 7:184–201.
   Google Scholar
• Meers, M. B. 2003. Crocodylian forelimb musculature and its relevance to Archosauria. Anatomical Record (Part A) 274:891–916.
   Google Scholar
• Milner, A. R., and S. E. Evans. 1991. The Upper Jurassic diapsid Lisboasaurus estesi—a maniraptoran theropod. Palaeontology 34:503–513.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nash, D. S. 1975. The morphology and relationships of a crocodilian, Orthosuchus stormbergi, from the Upper Triassic of Lesotho. Annals of the South African Museum 67:227–329.
   Google Scholar
• Nesbitt, S. J. 2011. The early evolution of archosaurs: relationships and the origin of major clades. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 352:1–292.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nesbitt, S. J., A. H. Turner, C. Jonathan, and C. Weinbaum. 2012. A survey of skeletal elements in the orbit of Pseudosuchia and the origin of the crocodylian palpebral. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 103:365–381.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Norell, M. A., and D. E. Barta. 2016. A new specimen of the ornithischian dinosaur Haya griva, cross-Gobi geologic correlation, and the age of Zos Canyon beds. American Museum Novitates 3851:1–19.
   Google Scholar
• Ortega, F. 2004. Historia evolutiva de los Cocodrilos Mesoeucrocodylia. Ph.D. dissertation, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Biología, Madrid, Spain, 350 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Ortega, F., and A. D. Buscalioni. 1995. Las Hoyas crocodiles, an evidence of the transition model of the Eusuchian dorsal armor construction; pp. 107–110 in Extended Abstracts, II International Symposium on Lithographic Limestones, Lleida-Cuenca (Spain) 9th–16th July, Ediciones de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
   Google Scholar
• Ortega, F., Z. Gasparini, A. D. Buscalioni, and J. O. Calvo. 2000. A new species of Araripesuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20:57–76.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ortega, F., A. D. Buscalioni, X. Delclòs, M. A. Fregenal-Martínez, C. Martín-Closas, F. J. Poyato-Ariza, J. L. Sanz, and C. Soriano. 2004. Los fósiles del Cretácico de Las Hoyas: un yacimiento excepcional; pp. 422–447 in R. Nuche del Rivero (ed.), Patrimonio Geológico de Castilla-La Mancha. Enresa Ediciones, Madrid, Spain.
   Google Scholar
• Osmólska, H. 1972. Preliminary note on a crocodilian from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 27:43–47.
   Google Scholar
• Osmólska, H., S. Hua, and E. Buffetaut. 1997. Gobiosuchus kielanae (Protosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia: anatomy and relationship. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 42:257–289.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pol, D. 2005. Postcranial remains of Notosuchus terrestris (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes) from the upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. Ameghiniana 42:21–38.
   Google Scholar
• Pol, D., and M. Norell. 2004a. A new gobiosuchid crocodyliform taxon from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 3458:1–31.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pol, D., and M. Norell. 2004b. A new crocodyliform taxon from the Zos Canyon, Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 3445:1–36.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pol, D., J. M. Leardi, A. Lecuona, and M. Krause. 2012. Postcranial anatomy of Sebecus icaeorhinus (Crocodyliformes, Sebecidae) from the Eocene of Patagonia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32:328–354.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pol, D., O. W. M. Rauhut, A. Lecuona, J. M. Leardi, X. Xu, and J. M. Clark. 2013. A new fossil from the Jurassic of Patagonia reveals the early basicranial evolution and the origins of Crocodyliformes. Biological Reviews 88:862–872.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pol, D., P. M. Nascimento, A. B. Carvalho, C. Riccomini, R. A. Pires-Domingues, and H. Zaher. 2014. A new notosuchian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil and the phylogeny of advanced notosuchians. PLoS ONE 9:e93105. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093105.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sanz, J. L., S. Wenz, A. Yébenes, R. Estes, X. Martinez-Delclos, E. Jimenez-Fuentes, C. Diéguez, A. D. Buscalioni, L. J. Barbadillo, and L. Via. 1988. An Early Cretaceous faunal and floral continental assemblage: Las Hoyas fossil site (Cuenca, Spain). Geobios 21:611–635.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schlueter, C., K. D. Budras, E. Ludewig, E. Mayrhofer, H. E. Koenig, A. Walter, and G. U. Oechtering. 2009. Brachycephalic feline noses: CT and anatomical study of the relationship between head conformation and the nasolacrimal drainage system. Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery 11:891–900.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schmitz, L., and R. Motani. 2011. Nocturnality in dinosaurs inferred from scleral ring and orbit morphology. Science 332:705–708.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schwarz, D., and R. Fechner. 2008. The first dentary of Lisboasaurus (Crocodylomorpha, ?Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) of Uña, Cuenca Province, Spain. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28:264–268.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Seiffert, J. 1970. Oberjurassische Lacertilier aus der Kohlengrube Guimarota bei Leiria (Mittel-Portugal). Ph.D. dissertation, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 89 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Seiffert, J. 1973. Upper Jurassic lizards from central Portugal. Memória dos Servicos Géologicos de Portugal Nova Série 22:7–88.
   Google Scholar
• Sertich, J. W., and J. R. Groenke. 2010. Appendicular skeleton of Simosuchus clarki (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar; pp. 122–153 in D. W. Krause and N. J. Kley (eds.), Simosuchus clarki (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 10. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(6, Supplement).
   Google Scholar
• Storrs, G. W., and M. B. Efimov. 2000. Mesozoic crocodyliforms of north-central Eurasia; pp. 402–419 in M. J. Benton, M. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin, and E. N. Kurochkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
   Google Scholar
• Tokita, M., W. Chaeychomsri, and J. Siruntawineti. 2013. Skeletal gene expression in the temporal region of the reptilian embryos: implications for the evolution of reptilian skull morphology. SpringerPlus 2:336.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Turner, A. H., and S. J. Nesbitt. 2013. Body size evolution during the Triassic archosauriform radiation. Geological Society Special Publication 379:573–597.
   Google Scholar
• Walmsley, Ch. W., P. D. Smits, M. R. Quayle, M. R. McCurry, H. S. Richards, C. C. Oldfield, S. Wroe, P. D. Clausen, and C. R. McHenry. 2013. Why the long face? The mechanics of mandibular proportions in crocodiles. PLoS ONE 8:e53873. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053873.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Weber, J., H. Collmann, A. Czarnetzki, A. Spring, and C. M. Pusch. 2008. Morphometric analysis of untreated adult skulls in syndromic and nonsyndromic craniosynostosis. Neurosurgery Review 31:179–188.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wettstein, O. von. 1954. Crocodilia. Handbuch der Zoologie 7:236–424.
   Google Scholar
• Wilson, L. A. B., and M. R. Sánchez-Villagra. 2009. Heterochrony and patterns of cranial suture closure in hystricognath rodents. Journal of Anatomy 214:339–354.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wu, X.-C., D. B. Brinkman, and J.-C. Lu. 1994. A new species of Shantungosuchus from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia (China), with comments on S. chuhsienensis Young, 1961 and the phylogenetic position of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14:210–229.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wu, X.-C., H.-D. Sues, and Z.-M. Dong. 1997. Sichuanosuchus shuhanensis, a new ?early Cretaceous protosuchian (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes) from Sichuan (China), and the monophyly of Protosuchia. Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 17:89–103.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Yamashita, M., T. Konishi, and T. Sato. 2015. Sclerotic rings in mosasaurs (Squamata: Mosasauridae): structures and taxonomic diversity. PLoS ONE 10:e0117079. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117079.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar