| Description | Theriosuchus is an extinct genus of atoposaurid mesoeucrocodylian from Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous of Europe (southern England), Southeast Asia (Thailand) and western North America (Wyoming), with fragmentary records from Middle Jurassic and Early Cretaceous sites in China, Morocco, and Scotland.
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| Rank | genus |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Atoposauridae : Theriosuchus |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Atoposauridae : Theriosuchus |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Scientific Name | Theriosuchus Owen |
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| Name Published In | Quart. J. Geol. Soc., 35 |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Theriosuchus | genus | belongs to Goniopholidae | stated without evidence | Delair, 1958 | | Theriosuchus | genus | belongs to Atoposauridae | stated with evidence | Joffe, 1967 | | Theriosuchus | genus | belongs to Atoposaurides | implied | Carroll, 1988 | | Theriosuchus | genus | belongs to Atoposaurides | stated with evidence | Buscalioni and Sanz, 1990 | | Theriosuchus | genus | belongs to Neosuchia | stated with evidence | Wu et al., 1994 | | Theriosuchus | genus | belongs to Atoposauridae | stated with evidence | Wu et al., 1996 | | Theriosuchus | genus | belongs to Neosuchia | stated with evidence | Ortega et al., 2000 | | Theriosuchus | genus | belongs to Mesoeucrocodylia | stated without evidence | Pol and Norell, 2004 | | Theriosuchus | genus | belongs to Atoposauridae | stated with evidence | Karl et al., 2006 | | Theriosuchus | genus | belongs to Neosuchia | stated with evidence | Turner, 2006 | | Theriosuchus | genus | belongs to Atoposaurides | stated with evidence | Martin et al., 2010 | | Theriosuchus | genus | belongs to Neosuchia | stated without evidence | Andrade et al., 2011 | | Theriosuchus | genus | belongs to Atoposauridae | stated with evidence | Martin et al., 2014 | | Theriosuchus | genus | belongs to Neosuchia | stated without evidence | Sertich and O'Connor, 2014 | | Theriosuchus | genus | belongs to Neosuchia | stated with evidence | Tennant et al., 2016 | | Theriosuchus | genus | belongs to Atoposauridae | stated with evidence | Foster, 2018 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 4 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 172 - 166 Ma
Middle Jurassic |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous |
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| Environment | marine (based on Mesoeucrocodylia) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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| Diet | carnivore (based on Pseudosuchia) |
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| Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution |
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| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theriosuchus |
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| Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698 |
| Delair J. B. (1958) The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part one, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 79, 47-72 |
| Buscalioni A. D., Sanz J. L. (1988) Phylogenetic relationships of the Atoposauridae (Archosauria, Crocodylomoprha), Historical Biology 1, 233-250 |
| Buscalioni A. D., 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 |
| Wu X.-C., Brinkman D. B., et al (1994) A new species of Shantungosuchus from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia (China), with comments on S. chuhsienensis Young, 1961 and the phylogenetic position of the genus, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14 2, 210-229 |
| Thies D., Windolf R., et al (1997) First record of Atoposauridae (Crocodylia: Metamesosuchia) in the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) of Northwest Germany, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 205 3, 393-411 |
| Ortega F., Gasparini Z., et al (2000) A new species of Araripesuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20 1, 57-76 |
| Pol D., Norell M. A. (2004) A New Crocodyliform from Zos Canyon, Mongolia, American Museum Novitates 3445, 1-36 |
| Karl H.-V., Groning E., et al (2006) The Late Jurassic crocodiles of the Langenberg near Oker, Lower Saxony (Germany), and description of related materials (with remarks on the history of quarrying the “Langenberg Limestone” and “Obernkirchen Sandstone”), Clausthaler Geowissenschaften 5, 59-77 |
| Turner A. H. (2006) Osteology and phylogeny of a new species of Araripesuchus (Crocodyliformes: Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar, Historical Biology 18 3, 255-369 doi:10.1080/08912960500516112 |
| Zaher H., Pol D., et al (2006) Redescription of the Cranial Morphology of Mariliasuchus amarali, and Its Phylogenetic Affinities (Crocodyliformes, Notosuchia), American Museum Novitates 3512, 1-40 |
| Larsson H. C. E., Sues H.-D. (2007) Cranial osteology and phylogenetic relationships of Hamadasuchus rebouli (Crocodyliformes: Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Cretaceous of Morocco, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 149, 533-567 |
| Fiorelli L., Calvo J. O. (2008) New remains of Notosuchus terrestris Woodward, 1896 (Crocodyliformes: Mesoeucrocodylia) from Late Cretaceous of Neuquen, Patagonia, Argentina, Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 66 1, 83-124 |
| Martin J. E., Rabi M., et al (2010) Survival of Theriosuchus (Mesoeucrocodylia: Atoposauridae) in a Late Cretaceous archipelago: a new species from the Maastrichtian of Romania, Naturwissenschaften 97, 845-854 doi:10.1007/s00114-010-0702-y |
| 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 |
| Lauprasert K., Laojumpon C., et al (2011) Atoposaurid crocodyliforms from the Khorat Group of Thailand: first record of Theriosuchus from Southeast Asia, Paläontologische Zeitschrift 85, 37-47 doi:10.1007/s12542-010-0071-z |
| Nascimento P. M., Zaher H. (2011) The skull of the Upper Cretaceous baurusuchid crocodile Baurusuchus alberoi Nascimento & Zaher 2010, and its phylogenetic affinities, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163, S116-S131 |
| Bronzati M., Montefeltro F. C., et al (2012) A species-level supertree of Crocodyliformes, Historical Biology 24 6, 598-606 |
| Martin J. E., Rabi M., et al (2014) Cranial morphology of Theriosuchus sympiestodon (Mesoeucrocodylia, Atoposauridae) and the widespread occurrence in the Late Cretaceous of Europe, Journal of Paleontology 88 3, 444-456 |
| Sertich J. J. W., O'Connor P. M. (2014) A new crocodyliform from the middle Cretaceous Galula Formation, southwestern Tanzania, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34 3, 576-596 |
| Tennant J. P., Mannion P. D., et al (2016) Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177, 854-936 |
| Foster J. R. (2018) A new atoposaurid crocodylomorph from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Wyoming, USA, Geology of the Intermountain West 5, 287-295 |
| GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Quart. J. Geol. Soc., 35 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
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