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Thalattosuchia ✝

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Thalattosuchia is the name given to a clade of marine crocodylomorphs from the Early Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous that had a cosmopolitan distribution. They are colloquially referred to as marine crocodiles or sea crocodiles, though they are not members of Crocodilia.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalattosuchia, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4818547	https://www.gbif.org/species/4818547
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	92044	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=92044

Rank

genus (GBIF)
suborder (PBDB)

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Thalattosuchia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Thalattosuchia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

doubtful

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
genus	Thalattosuchia	Fraas 1901

Common Name

marine crocodile

Scientific Name

Thalattosuchia Fraas, 1901

Name Published In

Jahresh. Ver. Naturk. Stuttgart, 57

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Thalattosuchia	suborder	belongs to Crocodilia	stated with evidence	Osborn, 1904
Thalattosuchia	suborder	belongs to Crocodilia	stated without evidence	Roxo, 1937
Thalattosuchia	suborder	belongs to Crocodilia	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1946
Thalattosuchia	suborder	belongs to Crocodylia	stated without evidence	Hua et al., 2000
Thalattosuchia	suborder	belongs to Crocodyliformes	stated without evidence	Gasparini et al., 2000
Thalattosuchia	suborder	belongs to Mesoeucrocodylia	stated with evidence	Sereno et al., 2001
Thalattosuchia	suborder	belongs to Crocodyliformes	stated without evidence	Mueller-Töwe, 2005
Thalattosuchia	suborder	belongs to Neosuchia	stated with evidence	Gasparini et al., 2006
Thalattosuchia	unranked clade	belongs to Mesoeucrocodylia	stated without evidence	Pierce and Benton, 2006
Thalattosuchia	unranked clade	belongs to Neosuchia	stated with evidence	Jouve et al., 2006
Thalattosuchia	suborder	belongs to Neosuchia	stated without evidence	Jouve, 2009
Thalattosuchia	suborder	belongs to Neosuchia	stated with evidence	Martin et al., 2010
Thalattosuchia	suborder	belongs to Crocodylomorpha	stated without evidence	Foffa et al., 2018

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

136

First Recorded Appearance

201 - 191 Ma
Early Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

83.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

marine

Motility

actively mobile

Diet

carnivore

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. Fraas. 1901. Die Meerkrokodile (Thalattosuchia n. g.) eine neue sauriergruppe der Juraformation. Jahreshefte des Vereins fur vaterlandische Naturkunde, Wurttemberg 57:409-418

Common Name(s)

Marine Crocodile

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalattosuchia

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Metriorhynchoidea ✝ superfamily	listed (PBDB)	3	180 Ma Early Jurassic	176 Ma Early Jurassic
Teleosauroidea ✝ superfamily	listed (PBDB)	51	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Metriorhynchidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	148	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Teleosauridae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	159	201 Ma Early Jurassic	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Eoneustes ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	156 Ma Jurassic
Mystriosaurus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Peipehsuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Pelagosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Teleidosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	172 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1847	Mesosauria Giebel
1901	Thalattosuchia Fraas
1904	Thalattosuchia Osborn p. 100
1927	Steneosaurus gerthi Huene
1937	Thalattosuchia Roxo p. 44
1946	Thalattosuchia Kuhn p. 64
1966	Thalattosuchia Kuhn p. 86
1970	Thalattosuchia Walker p. 369
2000	Thalattosuchia Gasparini et al.
2000	Thalattosuchia Hua et al. p. 472
2001	Thalattosuchia Sereno et al. p. 1518
2003	Thalattosuchia Sereno et al.
2005	Thalattosuchia Mueller-Töwe

Year	Name and Author
2006	Thalattosuchia Gasparini et al. p. 72
2006	Thalattosuchia Jouve et al.
2006	Thalattosuchia Pierce and Benton p. 622
2009	Thalattosuchia Jouve
2010	Thalattosuchia Martin et al.
2011	Thalattosuchia Andrade et al.
2012	Thalattosuchia Bronzati et al.
2018	Thalattosuchia Barrientos-Lara et al.
2018	Thalattosuchia Foffa et al.
2018	Thalattosuchia Martin et al.
2019	Thalattosuchia Foffa et al.
2019	Thalattosuchia Sachs et al.

References

Fraas E. (1901) Die Meerkrokodile (Thalattosuchia n. g.) eine neue sauriergruppe der Juraformation, Jahreshefte des Vereins fur vaterlandische Naturkunde, Wurttemberg 57, 409-418

Kuhn O. (1946) Das System der fossilen und rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien [The system of fossil and recent amphibians and reptiles], Bericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bamberg 29, 49-67

Kuhn O. W. M. (1966) , Die Reptilien. System und Stammesgeschichte [The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny.], 1-154

Gasparini Z., Vignaud P., et al (2000) The Jurassic Thalattosuchia (Crocodyliformes) of Chile: a paleobiogeographic approach, Le Bulletin de la Société géologique de France 171 6, 657-664

Hua S., Vignaud P., et al (2000) Enaliosuchus macrospondylus Koken, 1883 (Crocodylia, Metriorhynchidae) du Valanginien de Barret-le-Bas (Hautes Alpes, France): un cas unique de remontée des narines externes parmi les crocodiliens, Geobíos 33 4, 467-474

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

Sereno P. C., Sidor C. A., et al (2003) A new notosuchian from the Early Cretaceous of Niger, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23 2, 477-482

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

Jouve S., Iarochene M., et al (2006) A new species of Dyrosaurus (Crocodylomorpha, Dyrosauridae) from the early Eocene of Morocco: phylogenetic implications, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148, 603-656

Pierce S. E., Benton M. J. (2006) Pelagosaurus typus Bronn, 1841 (Mesoeucrocodylia: Thalattosuchia) from the Upper Lias (Toarcian, Lower Jurassic) of Somerset, England, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 3, 621-635 doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[621:PTBMTF]2.0.CO;2

Jouve S. (2009) The skull of Teleosaurus cadomensis (Crocodylomorpha; Thalattosuchia), and phylogenetic analysis of Thalattosuchia, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 1, 88-102

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

Bronzati M., Montefeltro F. C., et al (2012) A species-level supertree of Crocodyliformes, Historical Biology 24 6, 598-606

Foffa D., Young M. T., et al (2018) A new metriorhynchid crocodylomorph from the Oxford Clay Formation (Middle Jurassic) of England, with implications for the origin and diversification of Geosaurini, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1367730

Martin J. E., Suteethorn S., et al (2018) A new freshwater teleosaurid from the Jurassic of northeastern Thailand, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38 6, e1549059 doi:10.1080/02724634.2018.1549059

Foffa D., Johnson M. M., et al (2019) Revision of the Late Jurassic deep-water teleosauroid crocodylomorph Teleosaurus megarhinus Hulke, 1871 and evidence of pelagic adaptations in Teleosauroidea, PeerJ 7 e6646 doi:10.7717/peerj.6646

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

Jahresh. Ver. Naturk. Stuttgart, 57 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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