... Mekosuchus inexpectatus n.g. n.s. Crocodilian nouveau de l'Holocene de Nouvelle Caledonie . Comptes Rendus Hebomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences Paris 304 : 853-857 . BROCHU , C.A. 1997. A review of " Leidyosuchus ...
... ( Mekosuchus inexpectatus ) may have survived almost to modern times . It has been suggested that its extinction from New Caledonia , Fiji and Vanuatu may have resulted from predation following the arrival of human inhabitants . Paul ...
... Mekosuchus , and the generalist broad - snouted Pallimnarchus , Australosuchus and Volia . While Kambara is con- sidered to have generalist morphology , its interspecific variation foreshadows many of the later forms . For example : the ...
... Mekosuchus inexpectatus Balouet and Buffetaut ( 1987 ) described a small , deep - snouted crocodile from cave deposits in New Caledonia as the new genus and species Mekosuchus inexpectatus . These deposits were initially dated as Recent ...
... Mekosuchus inexpectatus Balouet and Buffetaut 1987 Mekosuchus inexpectatus Balouet and Buffetaut , Comp . Rend . Acad . Sci . Paris , ( 2 ) 304 : 853 . The affinities of Mekosuchus inexpectatus are unclear . Although mesosuchian ...
... Mekosuchus and Quinkana , where the external narial opening is anterior as in most terrestrial amniotes ( Fig . 3.1 ) , not on the top of the snout as in all known aquatic crocodylians . The species showing these features , comprising ...
... Mekosuchus inex- pectatus from the island of New Caledonia . She was found in the hold of a ship that put in from the South Seas . The captain brought her to me . He didn't realize that it was the discovery of the cen- tury . You see ...
... Mekosuchus inexpectatus from New Caledonia has also been included in the Mekosuchinae ( Willis et al . 1993 ) . There are now six genera within the Mekosuchinae . Unfortunately some genera are represented by fragmentary material and ...
... Mekosuchus inexpectatus is cracking the shell of a Placostylus duplex snail it found on rocks along the edge of the stream. A giant terrestrial meiolaniid turtle waits patiently to come down to drink, while nearby a large flightless ...
... Mekosuchus inexpectatus , both from the island of New Caledonia . ( After Sand 1995. ) as a consequence of human ignited fires ( Bus- sell 1988 ; Elliot et al . 1995 ; McGlone 1983 ; McGlone and Wilmshurst 1999 ) . Human impacts on ...