Comments on the manuscript “A new species of Allodaposuchus (Eusuchia, Crocodylia) from the late Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of Spain: Phylogenetic and paleobiologic

The paper describes new material of Allodaposuchus from Spain. This taxon is particularly important to resolve the phylogenetic relationships of Crocodylia. Many characters are provided to justify the erection of the new species, but as the material is poor (as for many species of the genus), the comparisons are difficult. As often when the material is fragmentary, the authors try to find diagnostic characters, and often, in my opinion, use poor characters (intraspecific variability, weak differences...) (see below). So, I am not convinced by this new species. At least, the presentation of the characters should be revised, and a comparative diagnosis would be clearer when the character differs from only one other Allodaposuchus species (differs with ... in having...). The phylogenetic analysis is well conducted, but I strongly disagree with the phylogenetic results obtained by the authors, and with some of the coding, but it is beyond the scope of this review, and that will be discussed in a paper in preparation. Nevertheless, the results should be more extensively discussed (see below), and the matrix in a nexus format should be provided.