identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03AB87B31A7BFFF0EBDCFDAEA6F2F914.text	03AB87B31A7BFFF0EBDCFDAEA6F2F914.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Late	<div><p>Late Cretaceous: Campanian and Maastrichtian</p><p>The last stages of the Late Cretaceous, the Campanian and Maastrichtian (K7–K8), display a progressive increasing palaeodiversity pattern in the SQS curves (Fig. 2A, B). The pseudosuchian subsampled palaeodiversity estimates from Mannion et al. (2015) and Tennant et al. (2016), however, show a slight decrease in non-marine crocodyliforms from the Campanian to the Maastrichtian. During this interval, the eusuchian fossil record is entirely Laurasian, with a great occurrence data income from Europe, North America and Asia, in respective order of importance (Fig. 3A; Table 1). This period has been identified as a first step in the diversification of  Eusuchia, with the establishment of the crown-group  Crocodylia Owen, 1842 (Brochu, 2003; Martin &amp; Delfino, 2010; Bronzati et al., 2015). The first-known alligatoroids come from the North American K7 (e.g.  Leidyosuchus canadensis Lambe, 1907), as did the first-known gavialoids ( Eothoracosaurus mississippiensis Brochu, 2004 referred specimens from the Coon Creek Tongue). In the North American K8 appeared the first-known borealosuchids [e.g.  Borealosuchus sternbergii (Gilmore, 1910)], along with some of the first-known crocodyloids ( Albertosuchus knudsenii Wu &amp; Brinkman, 2015 and  Prodiplocynodon langi Mook, 1941). However, during the K7–K8 interval Europe is characterized by the presence of highly endemic basal eusuchian faunas, specifically allodaposuchids and hylaeochampsids (Buscalioni et al., 2003; Martin &amp; Delfino, 2010; Csiki-Sava et al., 2015; Narváez et al., 2016; Puértolas-Pascual et al., 2015). Europe registers its maximal palaeodiversity in the K8 interval; results in accordance with those of Buscalioni et al. (2003) and Puértolas-Pascual et al. (2015). In fact, the first crocodylians in Europe have been registered in this interval: gavialoids of the genus  Thoracosaurus Leidy, 1852 (Laurent et al., 2000; Storrs &amp; Efimov, 2000; Martin &amp; Delfino, 2010).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB87B31A7BFFF0EBDCFDAEA6F2F914	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Celis, Ane De;Narváez, Iván;Ortega, Francisco	Celis, Ane De, Narváez, Iván, Ortega, Francisco (2020): Spatiotemporal palaeodiversity patterns of modern crocodiles (Crocodyliformes: Eusuchia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189: 635-656
