New eusuchian cranial remains from the Upper Cretaceous of the southern Pyrenees.

Allodaposuchids were among the most common crocodyliforms in the Upper Cretaceous of Europe. The clade, recently erected to include a large number of species described in the last decade, seems to hold a remarkable diversity that has generated systematic controversies. Here we describe an interorbital fragment of an eusuchian crocodyliform, collected in the late 1950s in the locality of Suterranya-Mina de lignit (Lleida, Spain), from the lower Maastrichtian deposits of the Tremp Group, in the southern Pyrenees. The specimen is here identified as an allodaposuchid; some already described teeth, probably found together with the cranial remains and therefore here assigned to the same individual, reinforce this interpretation. The interorbital region of the specimen shows some important similarities with <italic>Allodaposuchus subjuniperus</italic>, reported only from the upper Maastrichtian levels of the Tremp Group, while it clearly differs from <italic>Allodaposuchus palustris</italic>, which is already reported in the lower Maastrichtian transitional deposits close to Suterranya-Mina de lignit locality. This study shows that at least three different species of allodaposuchids can be found in the lower Maastrichtian deposits of the Tremp Group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]