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Article: Systematics and taxonomy of Eocene tomistomine crocodylians from Britain and northern Europe

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 50
Part: 4
Publication Date: July 2007
Page(s): 917 928
Author(s): Christopher A. Brochu
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BROCHU, C. A. 2007. Systematics and taxonomy of Eocene tomistomine crocodylians from Britain and northern Europe. Palaeontology50, 4, 917–928.

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Abstract

The holotype of Dollosuchus dixoni (Owen) from the Early-Middle Eocene Bracklesham Beds of England is a set of mandibular fragments that cannot be distinguished from corresponding parts of other longirostrine crocodylians. An isolated humerus from the Bracklesham Beds is consistent with a gavialoid, but it cannot be referred to the holotype of D. dixoni. The name Dollosuchoides densmorei is established for the well-preserved skull and skeleton of a tomistomine from the Middle Eocene of Belgium that had been referred to D. dixoni. It can be clearly distinguished from the basal tomistomine 'Crocodilus'spenceri Buckland from the Lower Eocene of England, which cannot be referred to Dollosuchoides and is provisionally referred to Kentisuchus Mook. Although basal within Tomistominae, Dollosuchoides is more closely related to Tomistoma than to Kentisuchus.
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