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Presence of xiphodont crocodilians in the Tertiary and Pleistocene of Australia |
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| Authors: | MK Hecht M Archer |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Biology, Queens College , City University of New York , Flushing, N.Y., 11367, U.S.A.;2. Queensland Museum , Gregory Terrace, Fortitude Valley, Qld, 4006, Australia |
| Abstract: | The presence of two types of xiphodont crocodiles is reported for the first time from Australia. Crocodiles with this xiphoid type of tooth morphology were previously unknown anywhere in the world since the Miocene except for isolated xiphoid teeth noted by Plane (1967) from a Pliocene deposit in New Guinea. |
| Keywords: | Pyramids Cave Late Pleistocene palaeoenvironment Orthonyx Pycnoptilus |