‘Shanklin Croc’ and the Dawn of the Tethysuchian Radiation — Tetrapod Zoology

Your usual lament. Crocodylomorphs of several sorts have been covered here on a reasonable number of occasions but most of this material is now lost due to the death of ScienceBlogs and Scientific American blogs. Consequently, only a small number of articles are easily findable today. I aim to recover and republish my older articles here, in time. Sigh. Anyway…

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