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Neosuchia

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	93883	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=93883

Rank

unranked clade (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Neosuchia

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
-	Pseudosuchia
-	Suchia	Krebs 1974
-	Paracrocodylomorpha	Parrish 1993
-	Loricata
-	Crocodylomorpha
suborder	Crocodyliformes	Hay 1930
-	Mesoeucrocodylia	Whetstone and Whybrow 1983
-	Neosuchia	Clark 1988

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Neosuchia	unranked clade	belongs to Mesoeucrocodylia	stated without evidence	Wu and Brinkman, 1993
Neosuchia	unranked clade	belongs to Crocodyliformes	stated without evidence	Wu et al., 1996
Neosuchia	unranked clade	belongs to Metasuchia	stated with evidence	Sereno et al., 2001
Neosuchia	unranked clade	belongs to Crocodyliformes	stated with evidence	Gasparini et al., 2006
Neosuchia	unranked clade	belongs to Mesoeucrocodylia	stated with evidence	Brochu et al., 2009
Neosuchia	unranked clade	belongs to Crocodyliformes	stated with evidence	Turner and Sertich, 2010
Neosuchia	unranked clade	belongs to Mesoeucrocodylia	stated without evidence	Wings et al., 2010
Neosuchia	unranked clade	belongs to Metasuchia	stated with evidence	Andrade et al., 2011
Neosuchia	unranked clade	belongs to Mesoeucrocodylia	stated with evidence	Pol et al., 2012
Neosuchia	unranked clade	belongs to Crocodilia	stated without evidence	Tong et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

805

Extant Size (PBDB)

59 (7.3%)

First Recorded Appearance

237 - 228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Environment

marine (based on Mesoeucrocodylia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Pseudosuchia)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. C. Sereno, H. C. E. Larsson, and C. A. Sidor, B. Gado. 2001. The giant crocodyliform Sarcosuchus from the Cretaceous of Africa. 294:1516-1519

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Eusuchia suborder	listed (PBDB)		3,021	237 Ma Middle Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Thalattosuchia ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Marine Crocodile	389	201 Ma Early Jurassic	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Bernissartiidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		16	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Brillanceausuchidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Stomatosuchidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Susisuchidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Bernissartia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		36	156 Ma Jurassic	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Deltasuchus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Gilchristosuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Khoratosuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Montsecosuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Paluxysuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Wahasuchus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		3	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Atoposauridae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		82	172 Ma Middle Jurassic	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Coelognathosuchia ✝ unranked clade	listed (PBDB)		362	199 Ma Early Jurassic	41.3 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1887	Heterosuchus Seeley
1906	Alligatorium franconicum Ammon p. 154 fig. 10
1961	Alligatorium paintenense Kuhn p. 41
1971	Alligatorium franconicum Wellnhofer p. 154
1982	Shamosuchus occidentalis Efimov
1988	Neosuchia Clark
1989	Shamosuchus karakalpakensis Nesov et al.
1993	Neosuchia Wu and Brinkman p. 153
1995	Ischyrochampsa Vasse
1995	Ischyrochampsa meridionalis Vasse
1996	Neosuchia Wu et al.

Year	Name and Author
2000	Shamosuchus karakalpakensis Storrs and Efimov p. 411
2001	Neosuchia Sereno et al. p. 1518
2006	Neosuchia Gasparini et al. p. 72
2009	Neosuchia Brochu et al. p. 538
2010	Neosuchia Turner and Sertich
2010	Neosuchia Wings et al.
2011	Neosuchia Andrade et al.
2012	Neosuchia Pol et al.
2014	Neosuchia Pol et al.
2014	Alligatorium franconicum Tennant and Mannion
2019	Neosuchia Tong et al.

References

Sereno P. C., Larsson H. C. E., et al (2001) The giant crocodyliform Sarcosuchus from the Cretaceous of Africa 294, 1516-1519

Seeley H. G. On Heterosuchus valdensis, Seeley, a procoelian crocodile from the Hastings Sand of Hastings, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 43, 212-215

Wellnhofer P. (1971) Die Atoposauridae (Crocodylia, Mesosuchia) der Oberjura-Plattenkalke Bayerns, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 138 5-6, 133-165

Wu X.-C., Brinkman D. B. (1993) A new crocodylomorph of "mesosuchian" grade from the Upper Cretaceous upper Milk River Formation, southern Alberta, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13 2, 153-160

Vasse D. (1995) Ischyrochampsa meridionalis n. g. n. sp., un crocodilien d’affinité gondwanienne dans le Crétacé supérieur du Sud de la France, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 8, 501-512

Storrs G. W., Efimov M. B. (2000) Mesozoic crocodyliforms of north-central Eurasia, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, 402-419

Gasparini Z., Pol D., et al (2006) An unusual marine crocodyliform from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary of Patagonia, Science 311, 70-73

Turner A. H., Sertich J. J. W. (2010) Phylogenetic history of Simosuchus clarki (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 10, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 Sup1, 177-236

Wings O., Schwaz-Wings D., et al (2010) Overview of Mesozoic crocodylomorphs from the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China, and description of isolated crocodyliform teeth from the Late Jurassic Liuhuanggoi locality, Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 90, 283-294 doi:10.1007/s12549-010-0033-1

Andrade M. B. d., Edmonds R., et al (2011) A new Berriasian species of Goniopholis (Mesoeucrocodylia, Neosuchia) from England, and a review of the genus, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163, S66-S108

Pol D., Leardi J. M., et al (2012) Postcranial anatomy of Sebecus icaeorhinus (Crocodyliformes, Sebecidae) from the Eocene of Patagonia, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32 2, 328-354

Pol D., Nascimento P. M., et al (2014) A new notosuchian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil and the phylogeny of advanced notosuchians, PLoS One 9 4, e93105

Tennant J. P., Mannion P. D. (2014) Revision of the Late Jurassic crocodyliform Alligatorellus, and evidence for allopatric speciation driving high diversity in western European atoposaurids, PeerJ 2, e599

Tong H., Buffetaut E., et al (2019) Phu Din Daeng, a new Early Cretaceous vertebrate locality on the Khorat Plateau, NE Thailand, Annales de Paléontologie, 1-15 doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2019.04.004

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