Oryctos
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Yves Laurent, Eric Buffetaut & Jean Le Loeuff, A thoracosaurine skull (Crocodylia, Crocodylidae) in the Late Maastrichtian of Southern France. Oryctos 3, 19-27.
Important crocodilian remains have recently been discovered at a new late Maastrichtian locality near the village of Marignac-Laspeyres (Haute-Garonne, southern France). A skull and some postcranial elements have been referred to the longirostrine crocodilian Thoracosaurus Leidy, 1852, this being its first record from the Upper Cretaceous of France. The skull shows ante-orbital openings similar to those reported by Leidy in 1865 on a skull from New Jersey and hitherto mostly considered as accidental. These openings are reinterpreted and thoracosaurine palaeobiogeography is discussed.
Keywords : Late Maastrichtian, France, Paleobiogeography, Crocodylidae, Thoracosaurus
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