ALLODAPOSUCHIDAE INDET.

Blanco, Alejandro, Puértolas-Pascual, Eduardo, Marmi, Josep, Moncunill-Solé, Blanca, Llácer, Sergio & Rössner, Gertrud E, 2020, Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) crocodyliforms from north-eastern Iberia: a first attempt to explain the crocodyliform diversity based on tooth qualitative traits, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189 (2), pp. 584-617 : 597

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ALLODAPOSUCHIDAE INDET.

Localities: Molí del Baró-1, Serrat del Pelleu, Barranc de la Boïga, Pont d’Orrit-6, Les Torres-2, L’Espinau, Basturs Poble, Els Nerets, Torrent d’Esdavella, Peguera, Pedregal.

Material: IPS- 85801, IPS- 96640–42, IPS- 96645, IPS-96682, IPS- 96689, IPS- 96694, IPS- 96696, IPS- 96703, IPS- 96705, IPS- 96707, IPS- 105916, IPS- 105930, IPS- 105941, IPS- 105946, IPS- 105947, IPS- 105950, IPS- 105952, MCD- 4910, MPZ- 2017-808, IPS- 48970, IPS- 48971, IPS- 48973, MMC- 1306, MMC- 1307, MMC-1311 ( Fig. 5N–Q View Figure 5 ).

Description: Similar to morphotype XI, these teeth are conical but have blunt, proportionally wider and lower crowns. They are 2.8‒45.7 mm high basiapically and 1.1‒21.1 mm wide mesiodistally. Most of them also lack a basal constriction, but even if one is present, it is light. The cross-section is lemon-shaped to D-shaped ( Fig. 5N–O View Figure 5 ). The enamel is smooth. Well-developed mesial and distal carinae are present, but lack denticles. Unlike morphotype XI, they show mesial and distal basiapical grooves on the lingual side, near to the carinae.

Remarks: As pointed out above, the crocodylomorphs with generalist dentition identified in the Tremp Formation are all allodaposuchids. Features of morphotype XII are usually described in allodaposuchid teeth ( Puértolas-Pascual et al., 2014; Blanco et al., 2015a; Narváez et al., 2015, 2016; Blanco & Brochu, 2017). A crocodile tooth reported from the Reptile Sandstone level by Blanco et al. (2015b) also resembles this morphotype. However, the presence of faint ridges directed toward the carinae prevents inclusion with confidence of that tooth in morphotype XII. Marmi et al. (2016) pointed out that the shape of these specimens is identical to that of the teeth belonging to the holotype of A. subjuniperus ( MPZ- 2012/288; Puértolas-Pascual et al., 2014). In spite of agreeing with this assertion, the larger sample studied in the present work includes some specimens of intermediate shape between morphotypes XI and XII. Therefore, these morphotypes might include teeth belonging to different positions within the same tooth row. Hence, these teeth are better regarded as an indeterminate allodaposuchid, because they could represent equally well A. subjuniperus and A. hulki remains, Arenysuchus , or even a mixture of these taxa. This morphotype corresponds to morphotype 5 described by Marmi et al. (2016) from the Molí del Baró-1 site.

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