Christopher A Brochu
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Brochu C, de Celis A, Adams A, Drumheller S, Nestler J, Benefit B, et al.
Anat Rec (Hoboken)
. 2022 Jun;
305(10):2729-2765.
PMID: 35674271
We describe two new osteolaemine crocodylids from the Early and early Middle Miocene of Kenya: Kinyang mabokoensis tax. nov. (Maboko, 15 Ma) and Kinyang tchernovi tax. nov. (Karungu and Loperot,...
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Schwab J, Young M, Walsh S, Witmer L, Herrera Y, Brochu C, et al.
J Anat
. 2021 Nov;
240(5):821-832.
PMID: 34841534
Crocodylians today live in tropical to subtropical environments, occupying mostly shallow waters. Their body size changes drastically during ontogeny, as do their skull dimensions and bite forces, which are associated...
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Carr A, Nestler J, Vliet K, Brochu C, Murray C, Shirley M
J Morphol
. 2021 May;
282(8):1219-1232.
PMID: 33945166
The discovery of cryptic biodiversity has blossomed under the advancements of genetic techniques, but species identification via morphology remains crucial to effective conservation efforts. In this study, we tested the...
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Stocker M, Brochu C, Kirk E
PeerJ
. 2021 Feb;
9:e10665.
PMID: 33520458
Dramatic early Cenozoic climatic shifts resulted in faunal reorganization on a global scale. Among vertebrates, multiple groups of mammals (e.g., adapiform and omomyiform primates, mesonychids, taeniodonts, dichobunid artiodactyls) are well...
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Schwab J, Young M, Neenan J, Walsh S, Witmer L, Herrera Y, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2020 Apr;
117(19):10422-10428.
PMID: 32312812
Major evolutionary transitions, in which animals develop new body plans and adapt to dramatically new habitats and lifestyles, have punctuated the history of life. The origin of cetaceans from land-living...
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Wilberg E, Turner A, Brochu C
Sci Rep
. 2019 Jan;
9(1):514.
PMID: 30679529
Extant crocodylomorphs are semiaquatic ambush predators largely restricted to freshwater or estuarine environments, but the group is ancestrally terrestrial and inhabited a variety of ecosystems in the past. Despite its...
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Shirley M, Carr A, Nestler J, Vliet K, Brochu C
Zootaxa
. 2018 Nov;
4504(2):151-193.
PMID: 30486023
Molecular and morphological evidence has shown that the African slender-snouted, or sharp-nosed, crocodile Mecistops cataphractus (Cuvier, 1824) is comprised of two superficially cryptic species: one endemic to West Africa and...
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Brochu C
J Hum Evol
. 2017 Nov;
140:102410.
PMID: 29132687
Three crocodylid species are known from the Pliocene Kanapoi locality in the western Turkana Basin. One of these, Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni, includes material previously referred to Crocodylus niloticus (the modern Nile...
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Erickson G, Makovicky P, Currie P, Norell M, Yerby S, Brochu C
Nature
. 2015 Dec;
531(7595):538.
PMID: 26675726
No abstract available.
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Narvaez I, Brochu C, Escaso F, Perez-Garcia A, Ortega F
PLoS One
. 2015 Nov;
10(11):e0140679.
PMID: 26535893
The late Campanian-early Maastrichtian site of Lo Hueco (Cuenca, Spain) has provided a set of well-preserved crocodyliform skull and lower jaw remains, which are described here and assigned to a...