Fossil Crocs Found In Brazil

["Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Scientists on Wednesday unveiled 11 skeletons of
prehistoric crocodiles and said their discovery suggests that an ancient
land bridge once linked South America to Indo-Pakistan.

The fossilized skeletons of the Baurusuchus salgadoensis appear to be
closely related to another ancient crocodile species, the Pabwehshi
pakistanesis discovered in Pakistan, scientists from Rio de Janeiro's
Federal University said.

"This discovery really proves that South America was at one time linked to
the India-Pakistan bloc and this link could have only been through
Antarctica or Australia," said Rudolph Trouw, regional editor of the
scientific magazine Gondwana Research.

The Baurusuchus salgadoensis lived some 90 million years ago in an area of
southeastern Brazil known as the Bauru Basin, some 700 kilometers (450
miles) west of modern-day Rio de Janeiro, said Pedro Henrique Nobre, one
of the authors of the crocodiles' scientific description.
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