Expanded sampling across ontogeny in Deltasuchus motherali (Neosuchia, Crocodyliformes) : revealing ecomorphological niche partitioning and Appalachian endemism in cenomanian crocodyliforms /

Expanded sampling across ontogeny in Deltasuchus motherali (Neosuchia, Crocodyliformes) : revealing ecomorphological niche partitioning and Appalachian endemism in cenomanian crocodyliforms /

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Author / Creator:	Drumheller, Stephanie K., author.
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Description:	1 online resource (67 pages) : illustrations, color map
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge elements. Elements of paleontology, 2517-780X Cambridge elements. Elements of paleontology.
Subject:	Crocodilians, Fossil. Paleontology -- Cretaceous. Cretaceous Geologic Period. Crocodilians, Fossil. Paleontology. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13479846

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Other authors / contributors:	Adams, Thomas L. (Thomas Leroy), author. Maddox, Hannah, author. Noto, Christopher R., author.
ISBN:	9781009042024 1009042025 9781009005814
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-67). Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	New material attributable to Deltasuchus motherali, a neosuchian from the Cenomanian of Texas, provides sampling across much of the ontogeny of this species. Detailed descriptions provide information about the paleobiology of this species, particularly with regards to how growth and development affected diet. Overall snout shape became progressively wider and more robust with age, suggesting that dietary shifts from juvenile to adult were not only a matter of size change, but of functional performance as well. These newly described elements provide additional characters upon which to base more robust phylogenetic analyses. The authors provide a revised diagnosis of this species, describing the new material and discussing incidents of apparent ontogenetic variation across the sampled population. The results of the ensuing phylogenetic analyses both situate Deltasuchus within an endemic clade of Appalachian crocodyliforms, separate and diagnosable from goniopholidids and pholidosaurs, herein referred to as Paluxysuchidae. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Other form:	Print version: Drumheller, Stephanie K. Expanded sampling across ontogeny in Deltasuchus motherali (Neosuchia, Crocodyliformes). Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781009005814

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Summary:	New material attributable to Deltasuchus motherali, a neosuchian from the Cenomanian of Texas, provides sampling across much of the ontogeny of this species. Detailed descriptions provide information about the paleobiology of this species, particularly with regards to how growth and development affected diet. Overall snout shape became progressively wider and more robust with age, suggesting that dietary shifts from juvenile to adult were not only a matter of size change, but of functional performance as well. These newly described elements provide additional characters upon which to base more robust phylogenetic analyses. The authors provide a revised diagnosis of this species, describing the new material and discussing incidents of apparent ontogenetic variation across the sampled population. The results of the ensuing phylogenetic analyses both situate Deltasuchus within an endemic clade of Appalachian crocodyliforms, separate and diagnosable from goniopholidids and pholidosaurs, herein referred to as Paluxysuchidae. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (67 pages) : illustrations, color map
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-67).
ISBN:	9781009042024 1009042025 9781009005814
ISSN:	2517-780X