Shedding light on the taxonomic diversity of the South American Miocene caimans: the status of Melanosuchus fisheri (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea)

Melanosuchus niger Spix is distributed throughout the Amazon River basin today. The extinct Melanosuchus fisheri Medina from the late Miocene of Venezuela was erected based on two almost complete, but heavily deformed skulls (the holotype MCNC 243 and the referr...

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Autores principales:	Bona, Paula, Fernández Blanco, María Victoria, Scheyer, Torsten M., Foth, Christian
Formato:	Articulo
Lenguaje:	Inglés
Publicado:	2017
Materias:	Ciencias Naturales Miocene South America caimans Amazonia black caiman Caimaninae Neogene
Acceso en línea:	http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/108440 https://bioone.org/journals/ameghiniana/volume-54/issue-6/AMGH.08.06.2017.3103/Shedding-Light-on-the-Taxonomic-Diversity-of-the-South-American/10.5710/AMGH.08.06.2017.3103.short
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spellingShingle	Ciencias Naturales Miocene South America caimans Amazonia black caiman Caimaninae Neogene Bona, Paula Fernández Blanco, María Victoria Scheyer, Torsten M. Foth, Christian Shedding light on the taxonomic diversity of the South American Miocene caimans: the status of <i>Melanosuchus fisheri</i> (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea)
topic_facet	Ciencias Naturales Miocene South America caimans Amazonia black caiman Caimaninae Neogene
description	<i>Melanosuchus niger</i> Spix is distributed throughout the Amazon River basin today. The extinct <i>Melanosuchus fisheri</i> Medina from the late Miocene of Venezuela was erected based on two almost complete, but heavily deformed skulls (the holotype MCNC 243 and the referred specimen MCZ 4336), which show morphological differences from each other. The comparison indicates that only the holotype can be referred to Melanosuchus Gray. We propose MCZ 4336 is a representative of the caimanine <i>Globidentosuchus brachyrostris</i> Scheyer, Aguilera, Delfino, Fortier, Carlini, Sánchez, Carrillo-Briceño, Quiroz and Sánchez-Villagra. Although the taxonomy of <i>M. fisheri</i> is taken into question herein, the classification of the holotype still sustains the hypothesis that the genus is registered in South America since the late Miocene.
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author	Bona, Paula Fernández Blanco, María Victoria Scheyer, Torsten M. Foth, Christian
author_facet	Bona, Paula Fernández Blanco, María Victoria Scheyer, Torsten M. Foth, Christian
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title	Shedding light on the taxonomic diversity of the South American Miocene caimans: the status of <i>Melanosuchus fisheri</i> (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea)
title_short	Shedding light on the taxonomic diversity of the South American Miocene caimans: the status of <i>Melanosuchus fisheri</i> (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea)
title_full	Shedding light on the taxonomic diversity of the South American Miocene caimans: the status of <i>Melanosuchus fisheri</i> (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea)
title_fullStr	Shedding light on the taxonomic diversity of the South American Miocene caimans: the status of <i>Melanosuchus fisheri</i> (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea)
title_full_unstemmed	Shedding light on the taxonomic diversity of the South American Miocene caimans: the status of <i>Melanosuchus fisheri</i> (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea)
title_sort	shedding light on the taxonomic diversity of the south american miocene caimans: the status of <i>melanosuchus fisheri</i> (crocodylia, alligatoroidea)
publishDate	2017
url	http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/108440 https://bioone.org/journals/ameghiniana/volume-54/issue-6/AMGH.08.06.2017.3103/Shedding-Light-on-the-Taxonomic-Diversity-of-the-South-American/10.5710/AMGH.08.06.2017.3103.short
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Shedding light on the taxonomic diversity of the South American Miocene caimans: the status of <i>Melanosuchus fisheri</i> (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea)

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