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Sunosuchus junggarensis

Description

Sunosuchus is an extinct genus of goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian. Fossils are known from China, Kyrgyzstan, and Thailand and are Jurassic in age, although some may be Early Cretaceous. Four species are currently assigned to the genus: the type species S. miaoi and the species S. junggarensis, S. shartegensis, and S. shunanensis. All species are from China. Goniopholis phuwiangensis, also from Thailand, was reassigned to Sunosuchus by Andrade et al. (2011). The material from Kyrgyzstan has not been assigned to any species.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4967641https://www.gbif.org/species/4967641
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)64206https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=64206
Rankspecies
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Goniopholididae : Sunosuchus : Sunosuchus junggarensis
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Goniopholididae : Sunosuchus : Sunosuchus junggarensis
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
subclassEureptilia
-RomeriidaGauthier et al. 1988
-Diapsida
-Eosuchia
-NeodiapsidaBenton 1985
-SauriaGauthier 1984
-Archosauromorpha
-CrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
-EucrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-Archosauria
-Pseudosuchia
-SuchiaKrebs 1974
-ParacrocodylomorphaParrish 1993
-Loricata
-Crocodylomorpha
suborderCrocodyliformesHay 1930
-MesoeucrocodyliaWhetstone and Whybrow 1983
-NeosuchiaClark 1988
-Coelognathosuchia
familyGoniopholididaeCope 1875
genusSunosuchusYoung 1948
speciesSunosuchus junggarensisWu et al. 1996
Generic NameSunosuchus
Scientific NameSunosuchus junggarensis Wu et al., 1996
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Sunosuchus junggarensisspeciesbelongs to Sunosuchusstated without evidenceWu et al., 1996
Sunosuchus junggarensisspeciesbelongs to Sunosuchusstated with evidenceSchellhorn et al., 2009
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
First Recorded Appearance164 - 157 Ma
Jurassic
Last Recorded Appearance164 - 157 Ma
Jurassic
Environmentmarine (based on Mesoeucrocodylia)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Dietcarnivore (based on Pseudosuchia)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)X.-C. Wu, D. B. Brinkman, and A. P. Russell. 1996. Sunosuchus junggarensis sp. nov. (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes) from the Upper Jurassic of Xinjiang, People's Republic of China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33(4):606-630
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunosuchus_junggarensis

Fossil Distribution

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1996Sunosuchus junggarensis Wu et al. pp. 608-609 figs. 2-16
2009Sunosuchus junggarensis Schellhorn et al.
2012Sunosuchus junggarensis Bronzati et al.
2015Sunosuchus junggarensis Puértolas-Pascual et al.

References

Wu X.-C., Brinkman D. B., et al (1996) Sunosuchus junggarensis sp. nov. (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes) from the Upper Jurassic of Xinjiang, People's Republic of China, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33 4, 606-630
Schellhorn R., Schwarz-Wings D., et al (2009) Late Jurassic Sunosuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Neosuchia) from the Qigu Formation in the Junggar Basin (Xinjiang, China), Fossil Record 12 1, 59-69
Bronzati M., Montefeltro F. C., et al (2012) A species-level supertree of Crocodyliformes, Historical Biology 24 6, 598-606
Puértolas-Pascual E., Canudo J. I., et al (2015) New material from a huge specimen of Anteophthalmosuchus cf. escuchae (Goniopholididae) from the Albian of Andorra (Teruel, Spain): Phylogenetic implications, Journal of Iberian Geology 41 1, 41-56 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/rev_JIGE.2015.v41.n1.48654
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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