Vertebrate paleobiodiversity of the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) Angeac-Charente Lagerstätte (southwestern France): implications for continental faunal turnover at the J / K boundary
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Allain, Ronan
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Vullo, Romain
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Rozada, Lee
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Anquetin, Jérémy
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Bourgeais, Renaud
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Goedert, Jean
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Lasseron, Maxime
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Martin, Jeremy E.
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Pérez-García, Adán
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Fabrègues, Claire Peyre De
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Royo-Torres, Rafael
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Augier, Dominique
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Bailly, Gilles
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Geodiversitas
2022
2022-07-21
44
25
683
752
journal article
10.5252/geodiversitas2022v44a25
d0184974-bea3-4f97-a2f8-98887ec4f87e
1638-9395
6902033
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Theriosuchus
sp.
(
Fig. 17
A-D)
DESCRIPTION
Small isolated teeth are commonly recovered from residues obtained from bulk screening. Many of them (
Fig. 17
A-D) are leaf-shaped, labiolingually compressed, low-crowned and pseudoziphodont, a characteristic of the posterior dentition in the atoposaurid genus
Theriosuchus
(
Schwarz & Salisbury 2005
;
Lauprasert
et al.
2011
;
Martin
et al.
2014b
). Members of the genus
Theriosuchus
are small crocodyliforms with total body lengths less than
1m
(
Schwarz & Salisbury 2005
). Besides teeth, two skull bones might belong to this genus: a right jugal (ANG 16-5179) and a fragmentary frontal (ANG 14-3692). The jugal is about
1 cm
long and its ornamented lateral surface is thin and projects ventrally. The frontal preserves the interorbital area and displays an acute median keel on its dorsal surface. A finely sculpted osteoderm, longer than wide and possessing a shallow median keel (
Fig.19D
), matches the morphology of dorsal osteoderms of the tail region in
Theriosuchus pusillus
(
Owen 1879
;
Clark 1986
).