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THE discovery in the lower Cretaceous of Niger of Araripesuchus, a small terrestrial crocodilian previously known only from Brazil, corroborates the existence of an African–South American faunal community until the Aptian. We show here that this provides additional evidence that an open seaway connecting the northern and southern parts of the Atlantic was not established until well into the early Cretaceous.
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BUFFETAUT, E., TAQUET, P. An early Cretaceous terrestrial crocodilian and the opening of the South Atlantic. Nature 280, 486–487 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/280486a0
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