Las cáscaras de huevo de cocodrilo más antiguas de Australia
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Cáscaras de huevo, Mekosuchinae, Eoceno, Australia, Biología reproductivaResumen
Mekosuchine crocodiles were a significant clade of endemic predators
from Australia during the Cenozoic. Despite there is an abundant skeletal
fossil record of this group, there has been no fossil evidence relating to
their reproductive biology. Here, we describe Australia’s oldest crocodylian
eggshells from the early Eocene Tingamarra Local Fauna from Murgon
(Australia). These eggshells are tentatively attributed to the genus Kambara,
copious in the Tingamarra deposits and being the only crocodylian genus
described in the area.
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