Evolution: Much on the Menu for Ancient Crocs

Roger B J Benson; Pedro L Godoy

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.004

Evolution: Much on the Menu for Ancient Crocs

Curr Biol. 2019 Jul 22;29(14):R683-R685. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.004.

Authors

Roger B J Benson¹, Pedro L Godoy²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3AN, UK. Electronic address: roger.benson@earth.ox.ac.uk.
² Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8434, USA.

PMID: 31336083
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.004

Abstract

Crocodylians are carnivores, but their extinct relatives had wider-ranging diets. A new study shows that herbivory evolved often in these animals, and that their teeth rivalled those of mammals in terms of complexity.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Evolution
Dinosaurs*
Herbivory
Mammals
Phylogeny