Adamantinasuchus navae: A new Gondwanan Crocodylomorpha (Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil

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

“…Even postcranial descriptions of notosuchian taxa are scarce, the most relevant one being that of Notosuchus terrestris (Pol, 1999(Pol, , 2005. Postcranial elements of Uruguaysuchus aznarezi (Rusconi, 1933), Chimaerasuchus paradoxus (Wu & Sues, 1996), Malawisuchus mwakayasyunguti (Gomani, 1997), Mahajangasuchus insignis (Buckley & Brochu, 1999), Adamantinasuchus navae (Nobre & Carvalho, 2006), and Stratiotosuchus maxhechti (Riff, 2007) are also available for comparison. However, the overall scarcity of detailed descriptions still hinders any attempt to accurately define the specialized postcranial anatomy of the family Baurusuchidae (Bertini et al, 1991(Bertini et al, , 1999Manzini et al, 1996;Brandt-Neto et al, 1992;Arruda et al, 2004;Avilla et al, 2004).…”

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.…”

The evolution of jaw mechanism and dental function in heterodont crocodyliforms

“…Type Locality-25 km southwest from the city of Marília, São Paulo State, Brazil (Nobre and Carvalho 2006).…”

“…Clark et al 1989, Carvalho 1994, Buckley et al 2000, Pol 2003, Nobre and Carvalho 2006, Marinho and Carvalho 2009, Iori and Carvalho 2011. These forms are usually characterized by complex jaw mechanism complemented by dental occlusion that refers to efficient oral food processing (Ősi 2010).…”