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Foth, Christian  
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Fernandez Blanco, María Victoria  
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Bona, Paula  
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Scheyer, Torsten M.  
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2018-08-28T22:49:06Z  
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2018-02  
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Foth, Christian; Fernandez Blanco, María Victoria; Bona, Paula; Scheyer, Torsten M.; Cranial shape variation in jacarean caimanines (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea) and its implications in the taxonomic status of extinct species: The case of Melanosuchus fisheri; Wiley-liss, Div John Wiley & Sons Inc; Journal of Morphology; 279; 2; 2-2018; 259-273  
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0362-2525  
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http://hdl.handle.net/11336/57479  
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Melanosuchus niger (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea) is one of the six living caimanine species widely distributed throughout the Amazon River basin today. Although there is only one extant species of Melanosuchus, fossil material assigned to this genus, represented by M. fisheri, has been reported from the late Miocene in South America. However, the validity of this taxon has been questioned and a recent investigation indicates that the referred specimen of M. fisheri (MCZ 4336) actually belongs to Globidentosuchus brachyrostris, while those diagnostic characters present in the holotype (MCNC 243) fall into the spectrum of intraspecific variation of M. niger. Here, we compare the skull shape of the holotype of M. fisheri with the ontogenetic series of the four jacarean species (M. niger, Caiman yacare, Caiman crocodilus, and Caiman latirostris) using 2D-geometric morphometric analyses in two different views. The analyses indicate that MCNC 243 falls into the morphospace of M. niger and C. latirostris. Despite strong shape similarities between juveniles of C. latirostris and MCNC 243, further anatomical comparisons reveal notable differences between them. In contrast, no concrete anatomical differences can be found between MCNC 243 and M. niger, although shape analyses indicate that MCNC 243 is relatively robust for its size. Thus, this study is able to confirm that the genus Melanosuchus was present in the late Miocene, but it still remains unclear if MCNC 243 should be treated as a junior synonym or probably a sister species of M. niger. Its Miocene age favors the second option, but as the shape analyses were also not able to extract any diagnostic characters, it should be retained as Melanosuchus cf. niger.  
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eng  
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Wiley-liss, Div John Wiley & Sons Inc  
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess  
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/  
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Amazonia  
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Caimaninae  
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Geometric Morphometrics  
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Neogene  
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South America  
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Meteorología y Ciencias Atmosféricas  
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Ciencias de la Tierra y relacionadas con el Medio Ambiente  
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CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS  
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Cranial shape variation in jacarean caimanines (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea) and its implications in the taxonomic status of extinct species: The case of Melanosuchus fisheri  
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article  
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info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo  
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion  
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2018-08-24T13:46:36Z  
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279  
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2  
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259-273  
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Estados Unidos  
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Nueva York  
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Fil: Foth, Christian. Université de Fribourg; Suiza. Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde Stuttgart; Alemania  
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Fil: Fernandez Blanco, María Victoria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Paleontología Vertebrados; Argentina  
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Fil: Bona, Paula. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Paleontología Vertebrados; Argentina  
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Fil: Scheyer, Torsten M.. Universitat Zurich. Instituto Palaontologisches Institut And Museum; Suiza  
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Journal of Morphology  
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info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmor.20769  
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info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jmor.20769