Re: Fossil Crocs Found In Brazil

[Jura <pristichampsus@yahoo.com>]

Cool find. I can't wait for the paper on these guys. 

The news story mentioned that all 11 skeletons were
unveiled at once, but didn't say if they were found
together, or were just the result of years of
searching. 

Also, if one clicks on the image at the upper left of
the story, there are a few more images of
_Baurusuchus_, including this neat pic of the actual
bones:

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20050608/capt.rio10206082133.brazil_prehistoric_crocodile_rio102.jpg?x=224&y=345&sig=u1amYTs.cSxbw.y2gQoG6Q--

Hopefully the paper for this one, gives a more
thorough description of the postcranial material, than
the _Uberabasuchus_ paper did.


Jason

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--- "Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu> wrote:

> 
> yahoo news link, these don't persist long (but will
> show up elsewhere
> before too long)...
> 
>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050608/ap_on_sc/brazil_prehistoric_crocodile;_ylt=AnoNLPzdjXwXTckcIx4NLK0PLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
> 
> 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.
> ...
> 
> 


"I am impressed by the fact that we know less about many modern [reptile] types 
than we do of many fossil groups." - Alfred S. Romer


                
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