Crocodylus rhombifer, , C. ACUTUS, AND C. MORELETII

Morgan, Gary S., Albury, Nancy A., Rímoli, Renato, Lehman, Phillip, Rosenberger, Alfred L. & Cooke, Siobhán B., 2018, The Cuban Crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) from Late Quaternary Underwater Cave Deposits in the Dominican Republic, American Museum Novitates 2018 (3916), pp. 1-1 : 1-

CROCODYLUS RHOMBIFER, C. ACUTUS, AND C. MORELETII

All characters discussed here for Crocodylus rhombifer pertain to the Late Quaternary crocodile fossils from the Dominican Republic, as well as modern and fossil specimens of C. rhombifer from Cuba and fossil specimens from Abaco, Bahamas, and Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. In the following discussion, the most diagnostic cranial characters and several postcranial characters of C. rhombifer are compared and contrasted with the characters in two other species of Crocodylus known from the Caribbean region, C. acutus and C. moreletii . In addition to the sample of five skulls of C. acutus from Lago Enriquillo , we also examined a skull