Palaeontology Spatiotemporal sampling patterns in the 230 million year fossil record of terrestrial crocodylomorphs and their impact on diversity Journal: Palaeontology Manuscript ID PALA-07-18-4277-OA.R1 Manuscript Type: Original Article Date Submitted by the Author: n/a Complete List of Authors: Mannion, Philip; Imperial College, Department of Earth Science and Engineering Chiarenza, Alfio; Imperial College, Department of Earth Science and Engineering Godoy, Pedro; University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Cheah, Yung Nam; Imperial College, Department of Earth Science and Engineering crocodiles, Crocodylomorpha, fossil record bias, Pull of the Recent, Key words: divergence times, diversity, spatiotemporal sampling Note: The following files were submitted by the author for peer review, but cannot be converted to PDF. You must view these files (e.g. movies) online. Supplementary Information.xls Palaeontology Page 1 of 35 Palaeontology 1 2 3 Spatiotemporal sampling patterns in the 230 million year fossil record of terrestrial 4 crocodylomorphs and their impact on diversity 5 6 Philip D. Mannion1, Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza1, Pedro L. Godoy2 and Yung Nam Cheah1 7 8 1 9 Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington 10 Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK;
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[email protected] 15 16 17 RRH: CROCODYLOMORPH FOSSIL RECORD 18 LRH: MANNION ET AL. 19 20 ABSTRACT 21 22 The 24 extant crocodylian species are the remnants of a once much more diverse and 23 24 widespread clade.