Crocodile reference

["Colin McHenry" <cmchenry@westserv.net.au>]

From: JCOOP2U@aol.com <JCOOP2U@aol.com>
To: vrtpaleo@usc.edu <vrtpaleo@usc.edu>
Date: Monday, 26 August 2002 4:51
Subject: Evolution of the Gharial Crocodile


>Hi all,
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions for references dealing with the evolution
>and fossil ancestry of Gharial crocodiles (Gavialis gangeticus).  I am
>working on a research paper dealing with biological aspects of Gavialis
>gangeticus but I would like to a have a few pages on the phylogeny of these
>crocodile from the Middle to Late Triassic to Tertiary.  Can respond off
list.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Josh Cooper
>Undergrad Biology/Geology Major
>Northern Kentucky University



Josh,
see references at http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Gavialis_gangeticus/

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This was posted to the vrtpaleo list (apologies for the cross post) a couple
of days ago, but it reminded me to post the details of a recent book on
crocodiles (I have checked in the archives, and couldn't find any
notification of it).

Crocodilian Biology and Evolution, 2000, edited by Gordon Grigg, Frank
Seebacher, and Craig Franklin, published by Surrey Beaty & Sons.

This is the symposium volume for the 'croc conference' that was held at the
University of Queesland in 1998.  It is a milestone volume in a way because
it brings together multiple sub-discplines in biology - molecular biology,
systematics, biomechanics, palaeobiology, reproductive and developmental
biology, physiology, ecology, and behaviour - as they are being focussed on
one animal.  The idea for the conference was born because, apart from crocs
being wonderful animals, they combine an excellent fossil record with
reasonably well studied extant species, and are therefore a good group to
use when bringing together a load of different disciplines.


Contents:

Palaeobiology, Phylogenetics, and Molecular Biology.  Preface by J. P. Ross,
pp. 1-2.

1. C. A. Brochu and L. D. Densmore.  Crocodile phylogenetics: A summary of
current progress, pp. 3-8.

2. C. A. Brochu.  Congruence between physiology, phylogenetics, and the
fossil record on crocodylian historical biogeography, pp. 9-28.

3. P. S. White and L. D. Densmore.  DNA sequence alignments and data
analysis methods: their effect on the recovery of crocodylian relationships,
pp. 29-37.

4. Genetic structure of six populations of American alligators: a
microsatellite analysis.  L. M. Davis, T.C. Glenn, R.M. Elsey, I.L. Brisbin
Jr, W.E. Rhodes, H.C. Dessauer and R.H. Sawyer, pp. 38-50.

5. Microsatellite markers for _Crocodylus_: new genetic tools for population
genetics, mating system studies and forensics.  N.N. FitzSimmons, S.
Tanksley, M.R.J. Forstner, E.E. Louis, R. Daglish, J. Gratten and S. Davis,
pp. 51-57.

6. High levels of genetic variability in West African Dwarf Crocodiles
_Osteolaemus tetraspsis tetraspis_, D.A. Ray, P.S. White, H.V. Duong, T.
Cullen, and L.D. Densmore, pp. 58-63.

7. New crocodilian material from the Miocene of Riversleigh (northwestern
Queensland, Australia), P.M.A. Willis, pp. 64-74.

8. New crocodyliform material from the Early Cretaceous Griman Creek
Formation, at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, R.E. Molnar and P.M.A.
Willis, pp. 75-82.


Functional Morphology and Biomechanics.  Preface by C. Gans, pp. 83-84.

9. A biomechanical transformation model for the evolution of semi-spheriodal
articulations between adjoining vertebral bodies in crocodilians, S.W.
Salisbury and E. Frey, pp. 85-134.

10. Bite force to skull stress correlation - modelling the skull of
_Alligator mississippiensis_, W.J. Daniel and C. McHenry, pp. 135-143.

11. Electron microprobe investigations of growth marks in crocodile
osteoderms, R. Rasch, A.D. Tucker, L. Daddow and E. Wentrup-Byrne,
pp.144-155.

12. Expression of superfast myosin in the jaw closing muscles of _Crocodylus
porosus_, J.F.Y. Hoh, J.H.Y. Lim, L.H.D. Lang, and C.A. Lucas, pp. 154 -164.

13. The kinematics of aquatic locomotion in _Osteolaemus tetraspis_ Cope, E.
Frey and S. W. Salisbury, pp. 165-179.

14. The histology of dorsal integumentary glands in embryonic and young
Estuarine crocodiles, _Crocodylus porosus_ and Australian Freshwater
crocodiles, _Crocodylus johnstoni_, K.C. Richardson and J.Y. Park, pp.
180-187.

15. Skin histology of embryonic and hatchling Estuarine and Australian
Freshwater Crocodiles, K.C. Richardson, J.Y. Park, G.J.W. Webb and S.C.
Manolis, pp. 188-196.


Reproductive and Developmental Biology.  Preface by R. Elsey, pp. 197-198.

16. Recent observations on the reproductive physiology and toxicology of
crocodilians, L.J. Guillette Jr and M.R. Milnes, pp 199-213.

17. Biotic and abiotic factors in crocodilian stress: the challenge of a
modern environment, A.A. Rooney and L.J. Guillette Jr, pp. 214-228.

18. Reproductive biology and its implication for management of Caiman
_Caiman yacare_ in the Pantanal Wetland, Brazil, M. Coutinho, Z. Campos, F.
Cardoso, P. Massara and A. Castro, pp. 229-243.

19. Evidence of accelerated sexual maturity and nesting in farm released
alligators in Louisiana, R.M. Elsey, V.A. Lance and L. McNease, pp. 244-255.

20.  Factors influencing nesting in _Crocodylus porosus_ on a Queensland
farm, G. McClure and R. Mayer, pp. 256-261.

Physiology and Physiological Ecology.  Preface by R. Seymour, pp. 263-264.

21. Recent developments in osmoregulation of crocodilians, A.J. Leslie and
L.E. Taplin, pp. 265-279.

22. Osmoregulatory plasticity in a crocodile: the physiological and
morphological repsonses of the estuarine crocodile _Crocodylus porosus_
acclimated to fresh water and salt water, L.C. Kuchel and C.E. Franklin, pp.
280-285.

23.  The chemistry of crocodilian skin galnds, P.J. Weldon and J.W. Wheeler,
pp. 286-296.

24.  Crocodilian thermal relations, G.C. Grigg abd F. Seebacher, pp.
297-309.

25.  Social interactions compromise thermoregulation in crocodilians
_Crocodylus johnstoni_ and _Crocodylus porosus_, F. Seebacher and G.C.
Grigg, pp. 310-316.

26. Proteolytic and strach-digesting enzymes of the stomach, duodenum and
pancreas of post-hatchling estuarine crocodiles _Crocodylus porosus_, M.A.
Read and A.J. Anderson, pp. 317-326.

27. Physiology and endocrinology of stress in crocodilians, V.A. Lance, L.A.
Morici and R.M. Elsey, pp. 327-340.

28. Biochemical and haematological values in farmed saltwater crocodiles
_Crocodylus porosus_ in the Northern Territory, J.M. Millan, A. Janmaat,
K.R. Fomiatti, L.K. Chambers, L.F. Melville, J.L. Purdie, and K.C.
Richardson, pp. 341-344.

Ecology and Behaviour.  Preface by A.D. Tucker, pp. 345-348.

29. Sensitivity analysis of stage-structureed demographic models for
freshwater crocodiles, A.D. Tucker, pp. 349-363.

30. Review and classification of call types of juvenile crocodilians, and
factors affecting distress calls, A.R.C. Britton, pp. 364-377.

31. Embryonic chemosensory learning in the Saltwater Crocodile _Crocodylus
porosus_, H. Sneddon, P.G. Hepper, and C. Manolis, pp. 378-382.

32. Courtship behaviour of American Alligators _Alligator mississippiensis,
K.A. Vilet, pp. 383-408.

33. The great alligator-caiman debate: meditations on crocodilian
life-history strategies, C.L. Abercrombie, K.G. Rice and C.A. Hope, pp.
409-418.

34. Growth of farm-released and wild alligators in a Louisiana freshwater
march, D.C. Bossert, R.H. Chabreck and V.L. Wright, pp. 419-425.

35. Louisiana's alligator ranching programme: a review and analysis of
releases of captive-raised juveniles, R.M. Elsey, L.McNease, and T. Joanen,
pp. 426-442.