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    Mekosuchus is a genus of extinct Australasian mekosuchine crocodilian. Species of Mekosuchus were generally small-sized (less than 2 m (6 ft 7 in) long)...
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    of Mekosuchus by French paleontologists Jean-Christophe Balouet and Eric Buffetaut in 1987. Like with Quinkana, the distinct morphology of Mekosuchus initially...
    116 KB (12,242 words) - 19:42, 30 September 2024
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    extinct monospecific genus of mekosuchine crocodylian closely related to Mekosuchus and Trilophosuchus. Volia is known from a collection of largely fragmentary...
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    Mekosuchinae following the inclusion of Mekosuchus from New Caledonia and Australia. The addition of Mekosuchus had a major impact on how Trilophosuchus...
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    Riversleigh World Heritage Area, namely Baru wickeni, "Baru" huberi and Mekosuchus whitehunterensis. After these early descriptions, things became relatively...
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    combination Ultrastenos huberi. Ultrastenos is now thought to be closer to Mekosuchus and Trilophosuchus. The skull of Baru was exceptionally broad and robustly...
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    Mekosuchinae Australosuchus? Baru Harpacochampsa? Kalthifrons Kambara Mekosuchus Paludirex Quinkana? Trilophosuchus Ultrastenos Volia Others Albertosuchus...
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    Crocodilia to the living species and close extinct relatives such as Mekosuchus. The various other groups that had previously been known as Crocodilia...
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    Mekosuchinae Australosuchus? Baru Harpacochampsa? Kalthifrons Kambara Mekosuchus Paludirex Quinkana? Trilophosuchus Ultrastenos Volia Others Albertosuchus...
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    Mekosuchus and Trilophosuchus in close associatioan with Ultrastenos and ”Baru” huberi (although this analysis placed the former closer to Mekosuchus)...
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    Mekosuchinae Australosuchus? Baru Harpacochampsa? Kalthifrons Kambara Mekosuchus Paludirex Quinkana? Trilophosuchus Ultrastenos Volia Others Albertosuchus...
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    apex predator of Pleistocene Fiji) Mekosuchus Mekosuchus inexpectatus (New Caledonian land crocodile) Mekosuchus kalpokasi (Vanuatu land crocodile) Varanus...
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    both in water and on land. The last surviving fully terrestrial genus, Mekosuchus, became extinct about 3000 years ago after humans had arrived on its Pacific...
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    coincident with the extinction of several species, such as the land crocodile (Mekosuchus kalpokasi), land tortoise (Meiolania damelipi) and various flightless...
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    Mekosuchinae Australosuchus? Baru Harpacochampsa? Kalthifrons Kambara Mekosuchus Paludirex Quinkana? Trilophosuchus Ultrastenos Volia Others Albertosuchus...
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    Mekosuchinae Australosuchus? Baru Harpacochampsa? Kalthifrons Kambara Mekosuchus Paludirex Quinkana? Trilophosuchus Ultrastenos Volia Others Albertosuchus...
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    Mekosuchinae Australosuchus? Baru Harpacochampsa? Kalthifrons Kambara Mekosuchus Paludirex Quinkana? Trilophosuchus Ultrastenos Volia Others Albertosuchus...
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    Mekosuchinae Australosuchus? Baru Harpacochampsa? Kalthifrons Kambara Mekosuchus Paludirex Quinkana? Trilophosuchus Ultrastenos Volia Others Albertosuchus...
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    Mekosuchinae Australosuchus? Baru Harpacochampsa? Kalthifrons Kambara Mekosuchus Paludirex Quinkana? Trilophosuchus Ultrastenos Volia Others Albertosuchus...
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    Quinkana. Willis and colleagues took this a step further by including Mekosuchus in this group and redefining Mekosuchidae as Mekosuchinae. No detailed...
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    base of a clade that contained both Quinkana and Kalthifrons as well as Mekosuchus and Baru. A few years later a more thorough analysis was conducted, published...
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  • Mekosuchinae Australosuchus? Baru Harpacochampsa? Kalthifrons Kambara Mekosuchus Paludirex Quinkana? Trilophosuchus Ultrastenos Volia Others Albertosuchus...
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    Mekosuchinae Australosuchus? Baru Harpacochampsa? Kalthifrons Kambara Mekosuchus Paludirex Quinkana? Trilophosuchus Ultrastenos Volia Others Albertosuchus...
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    Mekosuchinae Australosuchus? Baru Harpacochampsa? Kalthifrons Kambara Mekosuchus Paludirex Quinkana? Trilophosuchus Ultrastenos Volia Others Albertosuchus...
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    fossil turtles (Meiolania mackayi) and terrestrial fossil crocodiles (Mekosuchus inexpectatus) which became extinct shortly after human arrival. There...
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  • Former range Causes 1950-1050 BC New Caledonian terrestrial crocodile Mekosuchus inexpectatus Grande Terre and Isle of Pines, New Caledonia Hunting. 1935-1700...
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    Mekosuchinae Australosuchus? Baru Harpacochampsa? Kalthifrons Kambara Mekosuchus Paludirex Quinkana? Trilophosuchus Ultrastenos Volia Others Albertosuchus...
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    Mekosuchinae Australosuchus? Baru Harpacochampsa? Kalthifrons Kambara Mekosuchus Paludirex Quinkana? Trilophosuchus Ultrastenos Volia Others Albertosuchus...
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    Mekosuchinae Australosuchus? Baru Harpacochampsa? Kalthifrons Kambara Mekosuchus Paludirex Quinkana? Trilophosuchus Ultrastenos Volia Others Albertosuchus...
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    nonetheless bigger than many other mekosuchines such as Trilophosuchus and Mekosuchus. The genus is monotypic, meaning it contains only a single species, Kalthifrons...
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