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Deinosuchus

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Deinosuchus is an extinct genus related to the alligator that lived 80 to 73 million years ago (Ma), during the late Cretaceous period. [1]

86 relations: Aguja Formation, Alligator, Alligatoroidea, American alligator, American Museum of Natural History, Anatomical terms of location, Ancient Greek, Ankylosauridae, Apex predator, Ball and socket joint, Bay, Big Bend National Park, Bladen County, North Carolina, Bothremydidae, Brackish water, Campanian, Cretaceous, Crocodile, Crocodylidae, Crocodyliformes, Cuban crocodile, Dinosaur, E. P. Dutton, East Coast of the United States, Ebenezer Emmons, Edward Drinker Cope, Edwin H. Colbert, Estuary, Euoplocephalus, Eusuchia, Extinction, Family (biology), Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Genus, Geologist, Georgia (U.S. state), Gulf Coastal Plain, Hadrosaurid, Independent News & Media, Indiana University Press, Jack Horner (paleontologist), Jaw, John Bell Hatcher, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Journal of Zoology, Late Cretaceous, Leidyosuchus, Mandible, Maxilla, Mexico, ..., Natural History Museum of Utah, Nature (journal), Nature Publishing Group, North Carolina, Ocean, Ornithopod, Osteoderm, PALAIOS, Pleurodira, Pliosauroidea, Polyptychodon, Premaxilla, Pubis (bone), Purussaurus, Rhamphosuchus, Rib, Saltwater crocodile, Sampson County, North Carolina, San Carlos Formation, Sarcosuchus, Sea turtle, Skull, Species, Springer Science+Business Media, Stage (stratigraphy), Stomatosuchus, Texas, The Independent, Theropoda, Tyrannosaurus, Vertebra, Western Interior Seaway, Wiley-Blackwell, William Jacob Holland, Willow Creek, Montana, Year. Expand index (36 more) »

Aguja Formation

The Aguja Formation is a geological formation in North America, exposed in Texas, whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous.

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Alligator

An alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae.

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Alligatoroidea

Alligatoroidea is a superfamily of crocodilians that evolved in the Late Cretaceous period.

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American alligator

The American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), sometimes referred to colloquially as a gator or common alligator, is a large crocodilian reptile endemic to the southeastern United States.

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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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Anatomical terms of location

Standard anatomical terms of location deal unambiguously with the anatomy of animals, including humans.

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Ancient Greek

The Ancient Greek language includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.

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Ankylosauridae

Ankylosauridae are a family of the armored dinosaurs within Ankylosauria, and sister group to Nodosauridae.

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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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Ball and socket joint

The ball and socket joint (or spheroid joint) is a type of synovial joint in which the ball-shaped surface of one rounded bone fits into the cup-like depression of another bone.

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Bay

A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay.

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Big Bend National Park

For the Texas state park see: Big Bend Ranch State Park Big Bend National Park is an American national park located in West Texas, bordering Mexico.

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Bladen County, North Carolina

Bladen County, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Bothremydidae

Bothremydidae is an extinct family of side-necked turtles.

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Brackish water

Brackish water is water that has more salinity than fresh water, but not as much as seawater.

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Campanian

The Campanian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous epoch (or, in chronostratigraphy: the fifth of six stages in the Upper Cretaceous series).

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

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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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Crocodylidae

The crocodylian family Crocodylidae includes the true crocodiles, which are the members of the subfamily Crocodylinae, as well as the false gharial, the only extant member of the subfamily Tomistominae.

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Crocodyliformes

Crocodyliformes is a clade of crurotarsan archosaurs, the group often traditionally referred to as "crocodilians".

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Cuban crocodile

The Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) is a small species of crocodile found only in Cuba.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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E. P. Dutton

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East Coast of the United States

The East Coast of the United States is the coastline along which the Eastern United States meets the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Ebenezer Emmons

Ebenezer Emmons (May 16, 1799 – October 1, 1863), was a pioneering American geologist whose work includes the naming of the Adirondack Mountains in New York as well as a first ascent of Mount Marcy.

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Edward Drinker Cope

Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist.

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Edwin H. Colbert

Edwin Harris "Ned" Colbert (September 28, 1905 – November 15, 2001)O'Connor, Anahad,, The New York Times, November 25, 2001.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Euoplocephalus

Euoplocephalus is one of the largest genera of herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaurs, living during the Late Cretaceous of Canada.

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Eusuchia

The Eusuchia ("true crocodiles") are a clade of crocodylomorphs that first appears in the Early Cretaceous with Hylaeochampsa.

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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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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás

Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás (also Baron Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Baron Nopcsa, Ferenc Nopcsa, báró felsőszilvási Nopcsa Ferenc, Baron Franz Nopcsa, and Franz Baron Nopcsa) (May 3, 1877 – April 25, 1933) was a Hungarian-born aristocrat, adventurer, scholar, and paleontologist.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes that shape it.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Gulf Coastal Plain

The Gulf Coastal Plain extends around the Gulf of Mexico in the Southern United States and eastern Mexico.

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Hadrosaurid

Hadrosaurids (ἁδρός, hadrós, "stout, thick"), or duck-billed dinosaurs, are members of the ornithischian family Hadrosauridae.

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Independent News & Media

Independent News & Media plc (INM) is a media organisation based in Dublin, Ireland, and operating across several countries.

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Indiana University Press

Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences.

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Jack Horner (paleontologist)

John R. "Jack" Horner (born June 15, 1946) is an American paleontologist most famous for discovering and naming Maiasaura, providing the first clear evidence that some dinosaurs cared for their young.

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Jaw

The jaw is any opposable articulated structure at the entrance of the mouth, typically used for grasping and manipulating food.

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John Bell Hatcher

John Bell Hatcher (October 11, 1861 – July 3, 1904) was an American paleontologist and fossil hunter best known for discovering Torosaurus.

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Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (JVP) was founded in 1980 at the University of Oklahoma by Dr.

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Journal of Zoology

The Journal of Zoology is a scientific journal concerning zoology, the study of animals.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale.

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Leidyosuchus

Leidyosuchus (meaning "Leidy's crocodile") is an extinct genus of alligatoroid from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta.

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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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Maxilla

The maxilla (plural: maxillae) in animals is the upper jawbone formed from the fusion of two maxillary bones.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Natural History Museum of Utah

The Natural History Museum of Utah (NHMU) is a museum located on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.

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Nature Publishing Group

Nature Publishing Group is a division of the international scientific publishing company Springer Nature that publishes academic journals, magazines, online databases, and services in science and medicine.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Ocean

An ocean (the sea of classical antiquity) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere.

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Ornithopod

Ornithopods or members of the clade Ornithopoda are a group of ornithischian dinosaurs that started out as small, bipedal running grazers, and grew in size and numbers until they became one of the most successful groups of herbivores in the Cretaceous world, and dominated the North American landscape.

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Osteoderm

Osteoderms are bony deposits forming scales, plates or other structures based in the dermis.

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PALAIOS

PALAIOS is a bimonthly academic journal dedicated to the study of the impact of life on Earth history, combining the fields of palaeontology and sedimentology.

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Pleurodira

The Pleurodira are one of the two living suborders of turtles, the other being the Cryptodira.

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Pliosauroidea

Pliosauroidea is an extinct clade of marine reptiles.

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Polyptychodon

Polyptychodon (meaning 'shaped fin tooth') is a genus of pliosaurid found Middle-Late Cretaceous marine deposits in southern England.

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Premaxilla

The premaxilla (or praemaxilla) is one of a pair of small cranial bones at the very tip of the upper jaw of many animals, usually, but not always, bearing teeth.

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Pubis (bone)

In vertebrates, the pubic bone is the ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis.

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Purussaurus

Purussaurus is an extinct genus of giant caiman that lived in South America during the Miocene epoch, from the Colhuehuapian to the Montehermosan in the SALMA classification.

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Rhamphosuchus

Rhamphosuchus ("Beak crocodile") is an extinct relative of the modern false gharial.

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Rib

In vertebrate anatomy, ribs (costae) are the long curved bones which form the rib cage.

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Saltwater crocodile

The saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), also known as the estuarine crocodile, Indo-Pacific crocodile, marine crocodile, sea crocodile or informally as saltie, is the largest of all living reptiles, as well as the largest riparian predator in the world.

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Sampson County, North Carolina

Sampson County is the second-largest county in the U.S. state of North Carolina by area.

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San Carlos Formation

The San Carlos Formation is a geological formation in west Texas whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous.

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Sarcosuchus

Sarcosuchus (meaning "flesh crocodile") is an extinct genus of crocodyliform and distant relative of living crocodylians that lived 112 million years ago.

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Sea turtle

Sea turtles (superfamily Chelonioidea), sometimes called marine turtles, are reptiles of the order Testudines.

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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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Springer Science+Business Media

Springer Science+Business Media or Springer, part of Springer Nature since 2015, is a global publishing company that publishes books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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Stage (stratigraphy)

In chronostratigraphy, a stage is a succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic timescale, which usually represents millions of years of deposition.

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Stomatosuchus

Stomatosuchus inermis ("Weaponless mouth crocodile") was a long stomatosuchid neosuchian from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Egypt.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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Theropoda

Theropoda (or, from Greek θηρίον "wild beast" and πούς, ποδός "foot") or theropods are a dinosaur suborder characterized by hollow bones and three-toed limbs.

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Tyrannosaurus

Tyrannosaurus is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur.

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Vertebra

In the vertebrate spinal column, each vertebra is an irregular bone with a complex structure composed of bone and some hyaline cartilage, the proportions of which vary according to the segment of the backbone and the species of vertebrate.

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Western Interior Seaway

The Western Interior Seaway (also called the Cretaceous Seaway, the Niobraran Sea, the North American Inland Sea, and the Western Interior Sea) was a large inland sea that existed during the mid- to late Cretaceous period as well as the very early Paleogene, splitting the continent of North America into two landmasses, Laramidia to the west and Appalachia to the east.

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Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.

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William Jacob Holland

Rev William Jacob Holland FRSE LLD (August 16, 1848 – December 13, 1932) was the eighth Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh (1891–1901) and Director of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.

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Willow Creek, Montana

Willow Creek is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Gallatin County, Montana, United States.

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Year

A year is the orbital period of the Earth moving in its orbit around the Sun.

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References

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

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