The extensive dorsotemporal fenestrae in <i>Thalattosuchus superciliosus</i> (Metriorhynchidae, Thalattosuchia): an adaptation for offshore heliothermy?

Metriorhynchids are pelagic crocodylomorphs that thrived in the seas from the Middle Jurassic to the end of the Early Cretaceous. They evolved a diversity of aquatic adaptations such as limbs modified in swimming paddles, a hypocercal caudal fin, and preorbital openings associated with their enlarge