Figure 18. Comparative plate of extant crocodylian and thalattosuchian internal braincase anatomy. The extant gavialid Gavialis gangeticus, referred specimen UF-herp-118998, in lateral view (A) and in occipital view (B). The non-neothalattosuchian Plagiophthalmosuchus cf. gracilirostris, NHMUK PV OR 33095, in lateral view (C) and in occipital view (D). The early diverging metriorhynchoid Pelagosaurus typus, referred specimen NHMUK PV OR 32599, in lateral view (E) and in occipital view (F). The rhacheosaurin metriorhynchid Cricosaurus araucanensis, holotype MLP 72-IV-7-1, in lateral view (G) and in occipital view (H). All scale bars equal 5 cm. Highlighting the reduction

Published as part of Young, Mark T., Wilberg, Eric W., Johnson, Michela M., Herrera, Yanina, Brandalise, Marco de Andrade, Brignon, Arnaud, Sachs, Sven, Abel, Pascal, Foffa, Davide, Fernández, Marta S., Vignaud, Patrick, Cowgill, Thomas & Brusatte, Stephen L., 2024, The history, systematics, and nomenclature of Thalattosuchia (Archosauria: Crocodylomorpha), pp. 547-617 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200 (2) on page 589, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad165, http://zenodo.org/record/11241243