More Fossils Of Jurassic Crocodiles Found

[Oxytropidoceras]

Jurassic sea crocs lived similar lives to their

modern relatives, Natural History Museum

https://web.archive.org/web/20141018213212/http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2014/oct/jurassic-sea-crocs-lived-similar-lives-to-their-modern-relatives133360.html

The ancient crocodile that was as large as a Double-

Decker Bus: Giant predator ripped prey to shreds

160 million years ago, Mail Online Oct 15, 2014

https://web.archive.org/web/20141016053005/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2793913/the-ancient-crocodile-large-bus-terrifying-giant-predator-ripped-prey-shreds-160-million-years-ago.html

Prehistoric crocodiles' evolution mirrored in living

species, University of Edinburgh, Science Daily.

https://web.archive.org/web/20141017202538/http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141015101725.htm

and https://web.archive.org/web/20141018220528/http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2014/crocodiles-151014

The paper is:

Young, M. T., S. Hua, L. Steel, D. Foffa, S. L.

Brusatte, S. Thüring, O. Mateus, J. Ignacio

Ruiz-Omeñaca, P. Havlik, Y. Lepage, and M. B.

De Andrade, 2104, Revision of the Late Jurassic

teleosaurid genus Machimosaurus (Crocodylomorpha,

Thalattosuchia). Journal of the Royal Science

Open. vol. 1, no. 140222, 42 pp.

http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/1/2/140222

PDF file at http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royopensci/1/2/140222.full.pdf

Another paper, "The Cranial Osteology and Feeding

Ecology of the Metriorhynchid Crocodylomorph

Genera Dakosaurus and Plesiosuchus from the Late

Jurassic of Europe," can be found at:

http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/files/8230109/PDF_Youngetal2012DakosaurusPlesiosuchus.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.

Edited October 19, 2014 by Oxytropidoceras

[Triceratops]

Interesting animals. You wouldn't want one of those to come at you!!!