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Mekosuchus

Mekosuchus est un genre éteint de crocodiles d'Australasie au sein de la sous-famille des Mekosuchinae. Leur extinction semble dater de l'arrivée de l'Homme sur les îles d'Océanie[1].

  1. (en) The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database: Extinct Reptiles: Mekosuchus inexpectatus, noting Anderson, Atholl, Sand, Christophe, Petchey, Fiona and Worthy, Trevor H. (2010). "Faunal Extinction and Human Habitation in New Caledonia: Initial Results and Implications of New Research at the Pindai Caves", Journal of Pacific Archaeology 1.1: 89-109; M. kalpokasi, sp. nov.(J.I. Mead, D.W. Steadman, et al., "New extinct Mekosuchine crocodile from Vanuatu, South Pacific", Copeia, 2002.3: "the extinction of M. kalpokasi and other insular mekosuchines may have been anthropogenic")

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