Scientists reveal the growth dynamics of a relative of today’s crocodiles that lived 85 million years ago in Patagonia
CONICET researchers described the dynamics of growth, maturation and intraspecific and intraskeletal variation of Notosuchus terrestris, a reptile that inhabited northern Argentine Patagonia about 85 million years ago, during the Upper Cretaceous. This species, belonging to a group of terrestrial crocodyliformes known as notosuchians (Notosuchia),...