mesoeucrocodylian

plural mesoeucrocodylians

1. biologyAny of a group of mostly extinct crocodylomorphs of the clade Mesoeucrocodylia.

   The mesoeucrocodylians were known previously as the Mesosuchia.

   2015, Gordon Grigg, Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians, page 43

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   The new species possesses a combination of primitive and derived features that helps to fill wide morphological and temporal gaps in early mesoeucrocodylian history.

   2002 September 28, Ronald S. Tykoski, “Calsoyasuchus valliceps, a new crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, volume 22, number 3, page 593

   For mesoeucrocodylians known on the basis of incomplete skeletal remains, body size is generally estimated from skull length-total length relationships in extant crocodylians (Webb and Messel, 1978; Woodward el al., 1995; Sereno et al., 2001).

   2005 June 28, James O. Farlow, “Femoral dimenstions and body size of Alligator mississippiensis: Estimating the size of extinct mesoeucrocodylians”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, number 2, page 354