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The history, systematics, and nomenclature of Thalattosuchia (Archosauria: Crocodylomorpha)
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- 1. School of GeoSciences, Grant Institute, The King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh, James Hutton Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FE, United Kingdom & LWL-Museum für Naturkunde, Sentruper Strasse 285, 48161 Münster, Germany
- 2. Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
- 3. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany
- 4. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), División Paleontología Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, B1900 La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) & Departamento de Diversidade e Ecologia, Faculdade de Biociências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Ipiranga 6681, Prédio 12, Porto Alegre, 90619-900, Brazil & Setor de Paleontologia, Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Ipiranga 6681, Prédio 40, Porto Alegre, 90619-900, Brazil
- 5. Departamento de Diversidade e Ecologia,Faculdade de Biociências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Av.Ipiranga 6681, Prédio 12, Porto Alegre, 90619-900, Brazil & Setor de Paleontologia, Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Av.Ipiranga 6681, Prédio 40, Porto Alegre,90619-900, Brazil
- 6. 5, Villa Jeanne-d'Arc, 92340 Bourg-la-Reine, France
- 7. Naturkunde-Museum Bielefeld, Abteilung Geowissenschaften, Adenauerplatz 2, 33602 Bielefeld, Germany
- 8. Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Sigwartstrasse 10, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
- 9. Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, 4044 Derring Hall 926 West Campus Drive, Blacksburg 24061, Virginia, USA & School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
- 10. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), División Paleontología Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, B1900 La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
- 11. Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Evolution, Paléoécosystèmes et Paléoprimatologie,CNRS UMR 7262, Department of Geosciences, University of Poitiers, 86073 Poitiers Cedex 9, France
- 12. School of GeoSciences, Grant Institute, The King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh, James Hutton Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FE, United Kingdom
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Young, Mark T., Wilberg, Eric W., Johnson, Michela M., Herrera, Yanina, Brandalise, Marco de Andrade, Brignon, Arnaud, Sachs, Sven, Abel, Pascal, Foffa, Davide, Fernández, Marta S., Vignaud, Patrick, Cowgill, Thomas, Brusatte, Stephen L. (2024): The history, systematics, and nomenclature of Thalattosuchia (Archosauria: Crocodylomorpha). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200 (2): 547-617, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad165, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad165
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