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Crocodylus anthropophagus

Index Crocodylus anthropophagus

Crocodylus anthropophagus is an extinct species of crocodile from Plio-Pleistocene from Tanzania. [1]

23 relations: American Museum of Natural History, Apex predator, Crocodile, Crocodylus, Extinction, Holotype, Hominidae, Homo habilis, Mandible, National Museums of Kenya, Natural History Museum, London, Olduvai Gorge, Paranthropus boisei, Plio-Pleistocene, PLOS One, Postcrania, Skeleton, Skull, Species, Specific name (zoology), Tanzania, Voay, 2010 in paleontology.

American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is one of the largest museums in the world.

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Apex predator

An apex predator, also known as an alpha predator or top predator, is a predator at the top of a food chain, with no natural predators.

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Crocodile

Crocodiles (subfamily Crocodylinae) or true crocodiles are large aquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.

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Crocodylus

Crocodylus is one of three genera from the subfamily Crocodylinae of the family Crocodylidae.

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Extinction

In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.

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Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.

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Hominidae

The Hominidae, whose members are known as great apes or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo, the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan; Gorilla, the eastern and western gorilla; Pan, the common chimpanzee and the bonobo; and Homo, which includes modern humans and its extinct relatives (e.g., the Neanderthal), and ancestors, such as Homo erectus.

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Homo habilis

Homo habilis was a species of early humans, who lived between roughly 2.1 and 1.5 million years ago.

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Mandible

The mandible, lower jaw or jawbone is the largest, strongest and lowest bone in the human face.

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National Museums of Kenya

The National Museums of Kenya (NMK) is a state corporation that manages museums, sites and monuments in Kenya.

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Natural History Museum, London

The Natural History Museum in London is a natural history museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.

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Olduvai Gorge

The Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania is one of the most important paleoanthropological sites in the world; it has proven invaluable in furthering our understanding of early human evolution.

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Paranthropus boisei

Paranthropus boisei or Australopithecus boisei or "Karl Surva" was an early hominin, described as the largest of the genus Paranthropus (robust australopithecines).

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Plio-Pleistocene

The term Plio-Pleistocene refers to an informally described geological pseudo-period, which begins about 5 million years ago (mya) and, drawing forward, combines the time ranges of the formally defined Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs—marking from about 5 mya to about 12 kya.

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PLOS One

PLOS One (stylized PLOS ONE, and formerly PLoS ONE) is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) since 2006.

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Postcrania

Postcrania (postcranium, adjective: postcranial) in zoology and vertebrate paleontology refers to all or part of the skeleton apart from the skull.

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Skeleton

The skeleton is the body part that forms the supporting structure of an organism.

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Skull

The skull is a bony structure that forms the head in vertebrates.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Specific name (zoology)

In zoological nomenclature, the specific name (also specific epithet or species epithet) is the second part (the second name) within the scientific name of a species (a binomen).

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a sovereign state in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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Voay

Voay is an extinct genus of crocodile from Madagascar and includes only one species—V.

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2010 in paleontology

As science becomes more collaborative, papers with large numbers of authors are becoming more common.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodylus_anthropophagus

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