Uruguaysuchidae

Uruguaysuchidae Temporal range: Early - Late Cretaceous, 125–66 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Block containing multiple specimens of Araripesuchus wegeneri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Crocodylomorpha
Clade:	Metasuchia
Suborder:	†Notosuchia
Family:	†Uruguaysuchidae Gasparini, 1971
Subgroups
See text.

Uruguaysuchidae is a family of notosuchian crocodyliforms that lived in South America and Africa during the Cretaceous period. It includes the genera Araripesuchus and Uruguaysuchus. Below is a cladogram from Soto et al. (2011):^[1]

Notosuchia	Uruguaysuchidae Uruguaysuchus Araripesuchus A. wegeneri A. buitreraensis A. gomesii A. patagonicus Ziphosuchia Libycosuchus Simosuchus Malawisuchus Candidodon Chimaerasuchus Sphagesaurus Baurusuchus Bretesuchus Iberosuchus Notosuchus Comahuesuchus Mariliasuchus

References

1. Soto, M.; Pol, D.; Perea, D. (2011). "A new specimen of Uruguaysuchus aznarezi (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the middle Cretaceous of Uruguay and its phylogenetic relationships". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163 (S1): S173–S198. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00717.x.