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BAURUSUCHIDS [1 record]

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Record 1 1980-08-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
  • Reptiles and Amphibians
CONT

None of the living crocodilians is nonaquatic, but still one more group of land crocodile became prominent in South America during Tertiary times. They evidently arose from a group of peculiar mesosuchians, the baurusuchids, that first appeared in the late Cretaceous.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
  • Reptiles et amphibiens
CONT

Bien que les Corcodiliens actuels soient tous aquatiques, il a encore existé au Tertiaire des formes terrestres. En Amérique du Sud apparurent ainsi au Crétacé supérieur des Mésosuchiens très particuliers, les Baurisuchidés [...]

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