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Nevertheless, such data have significance for two reasons: (1) thalattosuchians represent an important data point regarding adaptation to marine life in tetrapods; and (2) as early-diverging members of the crocodylian stem-lineage, thalattosuchians provide information on the evolutionary assembly of the brain and other endocranial structures in crocodylomorphs. Here we use \u00b5CT data to virtually reconstruct the endocranial anatomy of\n                    <jats:italic>Pelagosaurus typus<\/jats:italic>\n                    , an early thalattosuchian with plesiomorphic traits of relevance to the split between the two major subgroups: Teleosauroidea and Metriorhynchoidea. Interpretation of these data in a broad comparative context indicate that several key endocranial features may be unique to thalattosuchians, including: a pyramidal morphology of the semicircular canals, the presence of an elongate endosseous cochlear duct that may indicate enhanced hearing ability, the presence of large, paired canals extending anteriorly from an enlarged pituitary fossa, a relatively straight brain (possibly due to the presence of large, laterally placed orbits), and an enlarged venous sinus projecting dorsally from the endocast that is confluent with the paratympanic sinus system. Notably, we document a large expansion of the nasal cavity anterior to the orbits in\n                    <jats:italic>Pelagosaurus<\/jats:italic>\n                    as an osteological correlate of an enlarged salt gland previously only documented in Late Jurassic metriorhynchoids. This is the first anatomical evidence of this structure in early thalattosuchians.\n                    <jats:italic>Pelagosaurus<\/jats:italic>\n                    also shares the presence of paired olfactory bulbs with metriorhynchoids, and shows an enlarged cerebrum, which may also be present in teleosauroids. Taken together, our findings indicate that physiological and sensory adaptations to marine life occurred early in thalattosuchian evolution, predating the origins of flippers, tail flukes, and hydrodynamic body forms seen later in metriorhynchoids.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.7717\/peerj.3225","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,4,25]],"date-time":"2017-04-25T04:22:37Z","timestamp":1493094157000},"page":"e3225","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":73,"title":["Virtual reconstruction of the endocranial anatomy of the early Jurassic marine crocodylomorph\n                    <i>Pelagosaurus typus<\/i>\n                    (Thalattosuchia)"],"prefix":"10.7717","volume":"5","author":[{"given":"Stephanie E.","family":"Pierce","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Museum of Comparative Zoology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United 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