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FIGURE 24 in The late Miocene caimanine fauna (Crocodylia: Alligatoroidea) of the Urumaco Formation, Venezuela

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FIGURE 24. Photographs of skull of holotype (1-5: UNEFM-CIAAP-1369; associated lower jaw not shown) and paratypes UNEFM-CIAAP 1445 (6) and AMU-CURS-135 (7) of Purussaurus mirandai. 1-3, holotype skull in dorsal (1), ventral (2) and angled rostral view (3); the latter is not to scale. 4, 5, skull fragment labelled as "quadrate" of UNEFM-CIAAP-1369, which possibly constitutes a proximal fragment of the left quadrate/quadratojugal complex of the holotype skull. 6, right lower jaw in dorsal view. 7, largely unprepared skull and attached left and right lower jaw rami in dorsal view (picture courtesy: Jorge Moreno, Colombia).

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Published as part of Scheyer, TM & Delfino, M, 2016, The late Miocene caimanine fauna (Crocodylia: Alligatoroidea) of the Urumaco Formation, Venezuela, pp. 1-57 in Palaeontologia Electronica 176 (4) on page 32, DOI: 10.26879/657, http://zenodo.org/record/13342586

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