Ziphosuchia

Ziphosuchia Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Middle Miocene, 90–11 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Life restoration of Notosuchus terrestris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Crocodylomorpha
Clade:	Metasuchia
Suborder:	†Notosuchia
Node:	†Ziphosuchia Ortega et al., 2000

Ziphosuchia is a clade of mesoeucrocodylian crocodyliforms that includes notosuchians and sebecosuchians. First constructed in 2000, it was considered to include Notosuchus, Libycosuchus, and Sebecosuchia.^[1][2] In a 2004 phylogenetic study, it was defined as the most recent common ancestor of Notosuchus, Libycosuchus, and Baurusuchoidea and all of its descendants.^[3]

Ziphosuchia is often considered to be the sister group of Neosuchia, a clade that includes modern crocodilians. Because the fossil range of Neosuchia extends back to the Early Jurassic with the family Goniopholididae, a ghost lineage of ziphosuchians dating back to that divergence point can be expected.^[4]

References

1. Ortega, F.; Gasparini, Z.; Buscalioni, A.D.; Calvo, J.O. (2000). "A new species of Araripesuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina)" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20 (1): 57–76. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0057:ANSOAC]2.0.CO;2.
2. Company, J.; Suberbiola, X.A.; Ruiz-Omeñaca, J.I.; Buscalioni, A.D. (2005). "A new species of Doratodon (Crocodyliformes: Ziphosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Spain" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 (2): 343–353. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0343:ANSODC]2.0.CO;2.
3. Carvalho, I.S.; Ribeiro, L.C.B.; Avilla, L.S. (2004). "Uberabasuchus terrificus sp. nov., a new Crocodylomorpha from the Bauru Basin (Upper Cretaceous), Brazil" (PDF). Gondwana Research 7 (4): 975–1002. doi:10.1016/S1342-937X(05)71079-0.
4. Buscalioni, A.D.; Schulp, A.S.; Jagt, J.W.M.; Hanna, S.S.; Hartman, A.F. (2004). "Late Cretaceous neosuchian crocodiles from the Sultanate of Oman" (PDF). Cretaceous Research 25 (2004): 267–275. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2003.12.004.