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- noun Plural form of
crocodilian .
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New crocodilians from the late Oligocene White Hunter Site, Riversleigh, northwestern Queenslands.
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
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New crocodilians from the late Oligocene White Hunter Site, Riversleigh, northwestern Queenslands.
The small, recently extinct, island-dwelling crocodilians of the south Pacific Darren Naish 2006
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Pterosaurs are in fact a sister group of crocodilians and dinosaurs (including birds) in the archosaur clade.
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Have you done any work with large reptiles (particularly crocodilians)?
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Pterosaurs are in fact a sister group of crocodilians and dinosaurs (including birds) in the archosaur clade.
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Point being, this beast isn't a direct ancestor of today's crocodilians, it's an ancient similar animal.
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Point being, this beast isn't a direct ancestor of today's crocodilians, it's an ancient similar animal.
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Point being, this beast isn't a direct ancestor of today's crocodilians, it's an ancient similar animal.
June 2010 2010
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Heilmann argued that birds could not have descended from dinosaurs predominantly because dinosaurs lacked clavicles, or so he thought, and he therefore favoured the idea that birds originated from the so-called 'pseudosuchians': primitive archosaurs that were also thought ancestral to dinosaurs and crocodilians.
Scientists Come to a Conclusion: Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs | Universe Today 2010
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When CITES came into force, the original Parties were most concerned with a rather small subset of species that are or were used in the fashion industry (e.g., wild cats for fur, crocodilians for leather) or as ornaments (e.g. elephant ivory, wild cattle as trophy heads).
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) 2009
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