Literature and web links

Web Links

• Wikipedia article on crocodilomorphs, including a cladogram with links to all major clades, including all fossil forms.
• Wikipedia article on crocodiles, with list of all living species and introduction to fossil forms.
• Crocodylia Natural History and Conservation. - all you want to know about modern crocs.

Books

• Benton, M. J. (2005) Vertebrate Palaeontology, 3rd edn. Blackwells, Oxford.
• Cox, B., Savage, R.J.G., Gardiner, B., Dixon, D. (1988) Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals. MacMillan London Ltd, London.

Scientific Papers

• Brochu, C.S. (2003) Phylogenetic approaches toward Crocodylian history. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 31, 357- 97.
• Erickson, G.M., Brochu, C.A. (1999) How did the terror crocodile grow so big? Nature 398, 205.
• Sereno, P.C., Larsson, H.C.E., Sidor, C.A., Gado, B. (2001) The Giant crocodyliform Sarcosuchus from the Cretaceous of Africa. Science 294, 1516- 9.
• Zhang Man, Wang Yishu, Yan Peng, Wu Xiaobing. 2011. Crocodilian phylogeny inferred from twelve mitochondrial protein-coding genes, with new complete mitochondrial genomic sequences for Crocodylus acutus and Crocodylus novaeguineae. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 60, 62-67.

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