Mesosuchia
fossil reptile suborder
Also known as: mesosuchian
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classification
- In crocodile: Annotated classification
†Suborder Mesosuchia Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous; choanae in posterior part of palatine bones. †Suborder Sebecosuchia Upper Cretaceous to Miocene; skull laterally flattened; choanae in depression in anterior part of pterygoids. Suborder Eusuchia Upper Jurassic to
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description
- In crocodile: Paleontology
In the Mesosuchia of the Jurassic (201.4 million–145 million years ago) and Cretaceous (145 million–66 million years ago) periods—to which the long-snouted ocean crocodiles also belong—the choanae were already located at the posterior part of two bones of the skull (palatines). In the true crocodiles (Eusuchia), which…
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