RESEARCH ARTICLE Allodaposuchus palustris sp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous of Fumanya (South- Eastern Pyrenees, Iberian Peninsula): Systematics, Palaeoecology and Palaeobiogeography of the Enigmatic Allodaposuchian Crocodylians Alejandro Blanco1*, Eduardo Pue´rtolas-Pascual2, Josep Marmi1, Bernat Vila2, Albert G. Selle´s1 OPEN ACCESS 1. Institut Catala` de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Universitat Auto`noma de Barcelona, C/Escola Industrial Citation: Blanco A, Pue´rtolas-Pascual E, Marmi J, 23, E-08201, Sabadell, Spain, 2. Grupo Aragosaurus–IUCA, A´ rea de Paleontologı´a, Facultad de Ciencias, Vila B, Selle´s AG (2014) Allodaposuchus palustris Universidad de Zaragoza, Pedro Cerbuna 12, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain sp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous of Fumanya (South-Eastern Pyrenees, Iberian Peninsula): *
[email protected] Systematics, Palaeoecology and Palaeobiogeography of the Enigmatic Allodaposuchian Crocodylians. PLoS ONE 9(12): e115837. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0115837 Editor: Peter Dodson, University of Pennsylvania, Abstract United States of America Received: July 21, 2014 The controversial European genus Allodaposuchus is currently composed of two Accepted: December 1, 2014 species (A. precedens, A. subjuniperus) and it has been traditionally considered a A. Published: December 31, 2014 basal eusuchian clade of crocodylomorphs. In the present work, the new species palustris is erected on the base of cranial and postcranial remains from the lower Copyright: ß 2014 Blanco et al. This is an open- access article distributed under the terms of the Maastrichtian of the southern Pyrenees. Phylogenetic analyses here including both Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and repro- cranial and postcranial data support the hypothesis that Allodaposuchus is included duction in any medium, provided the original author within Crocodylia.