Gustavo Darlim

Hi everyone and please welcome the new Jurassic rhynchocephalian, Sphenodraco scandentis! Art by the amazing @SerpenIllus

(1/n) 🚨Croc paper alert ! It's finally out! Please welcome Thilastikosuchus scutorectangularis 🐊 the first crocodyliform from the Sanfranciscana Basin, Brazil! I'd like to thank Joyce for inviting me to collaborate, I had a great time 😀 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Crocodylomorphs were once far more diverse than they are today. 🐊 Fossils from Brazil’s Late Cretaceous Bauru Group include terrestrial notosuchians w/varied ecology. New analysis of Barreirosuchus franciscoi reveals semiaquatic abilities Fachini et al.: doi.org/10.1002/ar.256…

Check our new paper out today in @WileyEcolEvol ! 🐢🦴📈 Fully open access here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7… 🧵 1/n

Ever wondered how giant Miocene crocodylians (e.g. Purussaurus and Mourasuchus) attained such large sizes? In this new paper led by PhD student @paiva_als, we show that climate of the Western Amazonian region played a key role! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Follow the thread 🧵 👇

Study on Acynodon adriaticus from Late Cretaceous Italy reveals durophagous adaptations! MicroCT shows robust skull, specialized molariform teeth. This small croc foraged for hard-shelled prey in turbid, freshwater habitats. Muscioni et al: doi.org/10.1002/ar.255… #FossilFriday

New Peirosauridae from Brazil just dropped! 🚨🐊 Meet Epoidesuchus tavaresae, from the Adamantina Formation (Late Cretaceous), a new pepesuchine peirosaurid, which was long-snouted and semiaquiatic. The great paleoart below was done by Guilherme Gehr. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

New paper! Two new fossil crocodylian from the Miocene of Argentina: Paranacaiman bravardi and Paranasuchus gasparinae! doi.org/10.1080/147720… If you'd like a Pdf, send me a dm! #fossil #crocs #paleontology

New croc paper alert! 🚨🐊 I'm happy to share the results of great teamwork effort, led by @jmleardi. In light of the recent publication of the Phylonyms, we present the phylogenetic nomenclature of notosuchian crocodylomorphs. mapress.com/bpn/article/vi…

🚨Check out our new paper on humerus variation across turtles! 🐢🐢🐢 We describe it for all major groups w/ novel, standardized terms, come up w/ new phylo characters & assess their discrete morpho disparity! doi.org/10.1002/ar.254… DM/email me for questions and/or critics 😉

Say hello to Macroprosopon hiltoni, "[Eric J.] Hilton's long face". This long-snouted fossil bonytongue was a relative of today's freshwater arapaima, but it lived in Moroccan seas 50 million years ago! Magnificent artwork by Sky Jung @HBivittatus Link: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/adv…

Thanks @Diplodoken for the very cool video and CGI reconstruction of #Alligatormunensis! 🐊🇹🇭 Congrats on the mini-documentary series! #fossilfriday #Thailand