Abstract
Although restricted in number of species, morphology, and geographic distribution, living crocodylomorph (Archosauria, Crocodylomorpha) species, the crocodiles, caimans, and gharials, represents only a fraction of their past diversity, which date back to the Triassic (~210 m.y). Crocodylomorphs diversified during the Mesozoic and, unlike other large tetrapods, did not succumb to the Creta…