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SUBMITTER: Selles AG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7499430 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sellés Albert G AG Blanco Alejandro A Vila Bernat B Marmi Josep J López-Soriano Francisco J FJ Llácer Sergio S Frigola Jaime J Canals Miquel M Galobart Àngel À
Scientific reports 20200917 1
Sebecosuchia was a group of highly specialized cursorial crocodyliforms that diversified during the Cretaceous and persist until the end of the Miocene. Their unique combination of cranial and post-cranial features indicates that they were active terrestrial predators that occupied the apex of the Late Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems, even competing with theropod dinosaurs. Here, we report the discovery of the earliest sebecid worldwide, and the first from Eurasia, Ogresuchus furatus gen. et s ...[more]