New Miocene Caribbean gavialoids and patterns of longirostry in crocodylians

Miocene flooding events of western Amazonia

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Comment (1) on “Formation of the Isthmus of Panama” by O’Deaet al.

(2017) Carlos Jaramillo et al.   Science Advances

Character evolution and the origin of Caimaninae (Crocodylia) in the New World Tropics: new evidence from the Miocene of Panama and Venezuela

(2016) Alexander K. Hastings et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Fossil Crocodilians from the High Guajira Peninsula of Colombia: Neogene faunal change in northernmost South America

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Ontogenetic bite-force modeling ofAlligator mississippiensis: implications for dietary transitions in a large-bodied vertebrate and the evolution of crocodylian feeding

(2016) P. M. Gignac et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

First North American fossil monkey and early Miocene tropical biotic interchange

(2016) Jonathan I. Bloch et al.   NATURE

New crocodylian remains from the Solimões Formation (lower Eocene–Pliocene), State of Acre, Southwestern Brazilian Amazonia

(2016) Rafael Gomes Souza et al.   REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE PALEONTOLOGIA

A New 13 Million Year Old Gavialoid Crocodylian from Proto-Amazonian Mega-Wetlands Reveals Parallel Evolutionary Trends in Skull Shape Linked to Longirostry

(2016) Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi et al.   PLoS One

Biogeography in deep time – What do phylogenetics, geology, and paleoclimate tell us about early platyrrhine evolution?

(2015) Richard F. Kay   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Biological evidence supports an early and complex emergence of the Isthmus of Panama

(2015) Christine D. Bacon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Miocene hyperdiverse crocodylian community reveals peculiar trophic dynamics in proto-Amazonian mega-wetlands

(2015) R. Salas-Gismondi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Origin of the white sharkCarcharodon(Lamniformes: Lamnidae) based on recalibration of the Upper Neogene Pisco Formation of Peru

(2015) DANA J. EHRET et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Rodents of the Caribbean: origin and diversification of hutias unravelled by next-generation museomics

(2014) P.-H. Fabre et al.   Biology Letters

Temporal Calibration and Biochronology of the Centenario Fauna, Early Miocene of Panama

(2014) Bruce J. MacFadden et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

The seawater neodymium and lead isotope record of the final stages of Central American Seaway closure

(2014) Anne H. Osborne et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Sea surface temperature contributes to marine crocodylomorph evolution

(2014) Jeremy E. Martin et al.   Nature Communications

Morphological integration and functional modularity in the crocodilian skull

(2013) Paolo PIRAS et al.   Integrative Zoology

Systematics and biogeography of crocodylians from the Miocene of Panama

(2013) Alexander K. Hastings et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

A new long-snouted species of the Miocene pontoporiid dolphinBrachydelphisand a review of the Mio-Pliocene marine mammal levels in the Sacaco Basin, Peru

(2013) Olivier Lambert et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Pinniped turnover in the South Pacific Ocean: new evidence from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Atacama Desert, Chile

(2013) Ana M. Valenzuela-Toro et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

The world’s largest gharialsGryposuchus: description ofG. croizati n. sp. (Crocodylia, Gavialidae) from the Upper Miocene Urumaco Formation, Venezuela

(2013) Douglas Riff et al.   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

Why the Long Face? The Mechanics of Mandibular Symphysis Proportions in Crocodiles

(2013) Christopher W. Walmsley et al.   PLoS One

Crocodylian diversity peak and extinction in the late Cenozoic of the northern Neotropics

(2013) T. M. Scheyer et al.   Nature Communications

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(2013) Dean C. Adams et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Evidence for middle Eocene and younger land emergence in central Panama: Implications for Isthmus closure

(2012) C. Montes et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Characterising ontogenetic niche shifts in Nile crocodile using stable isotope (δ13C, δ15N) analyses of scute keratin

(2012) Frans G.T. Radloff et al.   ISOTOPES IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH STUDIES

New turtles (Chelonia) from the late Eocene through late Miocene of the Panama Canal Basin

(2012) Edwin Cadena et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Fossil evidence for earliest Neogene American faunal interchange:Boa(Serpentes, Boinae) from the early Miocene of Panama

(2012) Jason J. Head et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Insights into the Ecology and Evolutionary Success of Crocodilians Revealed through Bite-Force and Tooth-Pressure Experimentation

(2012) Gregory M. Erickson et al.   PLoS One

A TIME-CALIBRATED SPECIES TREE OF CROCODYLIA REVEALS A RECENT RADIATION OF THE TRUE CROCODILES

(2011) Jamie R. Oaks   EVOLUTION

Fracturing of the Panamanian Isthmus during initial collision with South America

(2011) David W. Farris et al.   GEOLOGY

A high resolution stratigraphic framework for the remarkable fossil cetacean assemblage of the Miocene/Pliocene Pisco Formation, Peru

(2011) Leonard Brand et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

An ancient icon reveals new mysteries: mummy DNA resurrects a cryptic species within the Nile crocodile

(2011) EVON HEKKALA et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A phylogenetic hypothesis for Crocodylus (Crocodylia) based on mitochondrial DNA: Evidence for a trans-Atlantic voyage from Africa to the New World

(2011) Robert W. Meredith et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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(2010) CHRISTIAN PETER KLINGENBERG   Molecular Ecology Resources

The evolution of Metriorhynchoidea (mesoeucrocodylia, thalattosuchia): an integrated approach using geometric morphometrics, analysis of disparity, and biomechanics

(2010) MARK T. YOUNG et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Shape and mechanics in thalattosuchian (Crocodylomorpha) skulls: implications for feeding behaviour and niche partitioning

(2009) S. E. Pierce et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

The narial excrescence and pterygoid bulla of the gharial, Gavialis gangeticus (Crocodilia)

(2009) B. G. H. Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Morphospace occupation in thalattosuchian crocodylomorphs: skull shape variation, species delineation and temporal patterns

(2009) STEPHANIE E. PIERCE et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

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(2008) Pablo A. Goloboff et al.   CLADISTICS

Patterns of morphospace occupation and mechanical performance in extant crocodilian skulls: A combined geometric morphometric and finite element modeling approach

(2008) Stephanie E. Pierce et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

The oldest African crocodylian: phylogeny, paleobiogeography, and differential survivorship of marine reptiles through the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

(2008) Stéphane Jouve et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Lower Miocene Stratigraphy along the Panama Canal and Its Bearing on the Central American Peninsula

(2008) Michael Xavier Kirby et al.   PLoS One