A new species of Baurusuchus (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil, with the first complete postcranial skeleton described for the family Baurusuchidae

Abstract

The present work describes a new species of Baurusuchidae from Upper Cretaceous sediments of the Bauru

New material from a huge specimen of "Anteophthalmosuchus" cf. "escuchae" (Goniopholididae) from the Albian of Andorra (Teruel, Spain): Phylogenetic implications

“…4J-K) is very similar to the last cervical vertebra. It can be distinguished by its slightly longer diapophyses, which are dorsally placed with respect to the neural canal, or the parapophyses, which are less marked, dorsally placed and closer to the neurocentral suture (Mook, 1921;Wu et al, 1996;Nascimento and Zaher, 2010). In the first dorsal vertebra there is still a crest in the ventral region of the centrum, whereas in the other preserved dorsal vertebrae this crest does not exist.…”

Revisão da família Baurusuchidae e seu posicionamento filogenético dentro do clado Mesoeucrocodylia

“…albertoi (Nascimento & Zaher, 2010), e a família conta, além de Cynodontosuchus, com mais cinco gêneros, sendo quatro brasileiros, encontrados também na Bacia Bauru:…”

“…Ventralmente o esquamosal forma, como já dito, a borda póstero-lateral da fenestra supratemporal interna, contatando a projeção dorsal do quadrado em uma sutura horizontal que acompanha a borda da fenestra. albertoi, que parece ter a superfície posterior côncava e a anterior convexa a plana 87 (Nascimento & Zaher, 2010). Esta conclusão, porém, pode ser alvo de alguma controvérsia, pois esta parte neste táxon foi comprimida e se soltou da lateral do crânio.…”

Reptiles Extintos - Volumen en Homenaje a Zulma Gasparini

“…America (and other regions of Gondwana) has remarkably increased since the original studies of Gasparini in the 1970's and 1980's (Carvalho and Bertini, 1999;Ortega et al, 2000;Campos et al, 2001;Carvalho et al, 2004Carvalho et al, , 2005Carvalho et al, , 2011Pol and Apesteguía, 2005;Nobre and Carvalho, 2006;Andrade and Bertini, 2008;Carvalho, 2009, 2011;Kellner et al, 2009Kellner et al, , 2011aMarinho and Carvalho, 2009;Nascimento and Zaher, 2010;Montefeltro et al, 2011;Martinelli et al, 2012;Marinho et al, 2013). The new discoveries, coupled with the inclusion of both Baurusuchidae and Peirosauridae within Notosuchia in recent phylogenetic studies (e.g., Turner and Sertich, 2010;Pol et al, 2012Pol et al, , 2014, revealed a previously unsuspected diversity of Notosuchian crocodyliforms.…”