Atoposauridae
| Atoposauridae Temporal range: 168.3–66 Ma Late Bajocian or Bathonian[1] - Maastrichtian, possible middle Eocene record[2] | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Neosuchia |
| Family: | †Atoposauridae Gervais, 1871 |
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Atoposauridae is a family of crocodile-like archosaurs.[3] Members of the family have been found from France, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Germany, Kazakhstan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Cameroon, and Thailand.
Classification
Phylogeny
Cladogram modified from Buscalioni and Sanz (1988)[3] and Buscalioni and Sanz (1990):[4]
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References
- ↑ Mark T. Young, Jonathan P. Tennant, Stephen L. Brusatte, Thomas J. Challands, Nicholas C. Fraser, Neil D. L. Clark and Dugald A. Ross (2015). "The first definitive Middle Jurassic atoposaurid (Crocodylomorpha, Neosuchia), and a discussion on the genus Theriosuchus". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. in press. doi:10.1111/zoj.12315.
- ↑ Nancy J. Stevens, Robert V. Hill, Mohammed Al-Wosabi, Anne Schulp, Mustafa As-Saruri, Fuad Al-Nimey, Lea Ann Jolley, Yvonne Schulp-Stuip and Patrick O’Connor (2013). "A middle Eocene mesoeucrocodylian (Crocodyliformes) from the Kaninah Formation, Republic of Yemen". Geologos 19 (3): 175–183. doi:10.2478/logos-2013-0010.
- 1 2 Buscalioni, Angela D; Jose Luis Sanz. "Phylogenetic Relationships of the Atoposauridae (Archosauria, Crocodylomorpha)" (PDF). Historical Biology (Harwood Academic Publishers Inc.) I (1988): 233–250. doi:10.1080/08912968809386477. Retrieved 2008-09-05.
- ↑ Buscalioni, A. D.; and Sanz, J. L. (1990). "Montsecosuchus depereti (Crocodylomorpha, Atoposauridae), new denomination for Alligatorium depereti Vidal, 1915 (Early Cretaceous, Spain): Redescription and phylogenetic relationships". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 10 (2): 244–254. doi:10.1080/02724634.1990.10011810.
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