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Mesoeucrocodylia

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	53399	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=53399

Rank

unranked clade (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Mesoeucrocodylia

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

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mesoeucrocodylia	unranked clade	belongs to Crocodyliformes	stated without evidence	Wu and Brinkman, 1993
Mesoeucrocodylia	unranked clade	belongs to Crocodyliformes	stated with evidence	Rogers, 2003
Mesoeucrocodylia	unranked clade	belongs to Crocodyliformes	stated without evidence	Pol, 2003
Mesoeucrocodylia	unranked clade	belongs to Crocodylomorpha	stated without evidence	Agnolin and Pais, 2006
Mesoeucrocodylia	unranked clade	belongs to Crocodyliformes	stated with evidence	Brochu et al., 2009
Mesoeucrocodylia	unranked clade	belongs to Crocodyliformes	stated without evidence	Georgi and Krause, 2010
Mesoeucrocodylia	unranked clade	belongs to Crocodyliformes	stated with evidence	Andrade et al., 2011
Mesoeucrocodylia	unranked clade	belongs to Crocodyliformes	stated without evidence	Hastings et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

991

Extant Size (PBDB)

60 (6.1%)

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)

J. V. Rogers, II. 2003. Pachycheilosuchus trinquei, a new procoelous crocodyliform from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Glen Rose Formation of Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1):128-145

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Metameosuchia infraorder	listed (PBDB)
Notosuchia infraorder	listed (PBDB)	234	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	13.8 Ma Miocene
Congosauridae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)
Edentosuchidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Hsisosuchidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Libycosuchidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Theriosuchidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)
Trematochampsidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Dianchungosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	199 Ma Early Jurassic	199 Ma Early Jurassic
Lusitanisuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Microsuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Neosuchia unranked clade	listed (PBDB)	3,945	237 Ma Middle Triassic	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1875	Mesosuchia Huxley
1883	Mesosuchia Dollo p. 311
1898	Mesosuchia Woodward p. 141
1904	Mesosuchia Osborn p. 100
1937	Mesosuchia Roxo p. 44
1946	Mesosuchia Kuhn p. 64
1946	Cunampaia Rusconi
1954	Mesosuchia Huene p. 54
1960	Cunampaia Wetmore p. 27
1960	Cunampaiidae Wetmore p. 27
1966	Mesosuchia Kuhn p. 82
1968	Cunampaiidae Cracraft p. 43
1970	Mesosuchia Walker p. 369
1979	Mesosuchia Buffetaut
1983	Mesosuchia Buffetaut and Ingavat
1983	Mesoeucrocodylia Whetstone and Whybrow
1984	Mesosuchia Gasparini p. 86
1988	Cunampaia Carroll
1988	Cunampaiidae Carroll
1988	Mesosuchia Carroll
1993	Mesoeucrocodylia Wu and Brinkman p. 153

Year	Name and Author
1996	Mesoeucrocodylia Wu et al. p. 608
1998	Mesosuchia Efimov and Leschinskii
2001	Mesoeucrocodylia Averianov p. 776
2001	Mesoeucrocodylia Sereno et al. p. 1518
2002	Mesoeucrocodylia Brochu et al. p. 1060
2002	Mesoeucrocodylia Tykoski et al.
2003	Mesoeucrocodylia Pol p. 817
2003	Mesoeucrocodylia Rogers, II
2005	Mesoeucrocodylia Jouve p. 324
2005	Mesoeucrocodylia Turner and Calvo p. 89
2006	Mesoeucrocodylia Agnolin and Pais
2006	Mesoeucrocodylia Salisbury et al. p. 2440
2009	Mesoeucrocodylia Brochu et al. p. 538
2009	Mesoeucrocodylia Sereno and Larsson p. 8
2010	Mesoeucrocodylia Georgi and Krause
2010	Mesoeucrocodylia O'Connor et al. p. 748
2010	Mesoeucrocodylia Turner and Sertich
2010	Mesoeucrocodylia Wings et al.
2011	Mesoeucrocodylia Andrade et al.
2011	Mesoeucrocodylia Hastings et al. p. 1097
2011	Mesoeucrocodylia Nascimento and Zaher

References

Rogers, II J. V. (2003) Pachycheilosuchus trinquei, a new procoelous crocodyliform from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Glen Rose Formation of Texas, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23 1, 128-145

Dollo L. Première note sur les crocodiliens de Bernissart [First note on the crocodilians of Bernissart], Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 2, 309-338

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

Huene F. v. (1954) , Die Saurierwelt und ihre Geschichtlichen Zusammenhänge [The World of Reptiles and the History of Their Interrelationships]. 2nd, revised edition, 1-66

Wetmore A. (1960) A classification for the birds of the world, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 139 11, 1-37

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

Cracraft J. (1968) A review of the Bathornithidae (Aves, Gruiformes), with remarks on the relationships of the suborder Cariamae, American Museum Novitates 2326, 1-46

Buffetaut E. (1979) Jurassic marine crocodilians (Mesosuchia: Teleosauridae) from Central Oregon: first record in North America, Journal of Paleontology 53 1, 210-215

Buffetaut E., Ingavat R. (1983) Goniopholis phuwiangensis nov. sp., a new mesosuchian crocodilian from the Mesozoic of northeastern Thailiand, Géobios 16 1, 79-91

Gasparini Z. (1984) New Tertiary Sebecosuchia (Crocodylia: Mesosuchia) from Argentina, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 4 1, 85-95

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

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

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

Efimov M. B., Leschinskii S. B. (1998) Pervaya nakhodka cherepa iskopaemogo krokodila v Siberi [The first finding of a fossil crocodile skull in Siberia], Paleontologiya i Stratigrafiya 3, 361-363

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

Brochu C. A., Bouaré M. L., et al (2002) A dryosaurid crocodyliform braincase from Mali, Journal of Paleontology 76 6, 1060-1071

Tykoski R. S., Rowe T. B., et al (2002) Calsoyasuchus valliceps, a new crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22 3, 593-611

Pol D. (2003) New remains of Sphagesaurus huenei (Crocodylomorpha: Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23 4, 817-831

Jouve S. (2005) A new description of the skull of Dyrosaurus phosphaticus (Thomas, 1893) (Mesoeucrocodylia: Dyrosauridae) from the Lower Eocene of North Africa, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42, 323-337

Turner A. H., Calvo J. O. (2005) A new sebecosuchian crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 1, 87-98

Agnolin F. L., Pais D. F. (2006) Revisión de Cunampaia simplex Rusconi, 1946 (Crocodylomorpha, Mesoeucrocodylia; non Aves) del Terciario Inferior de Mendoza, Argentina, Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 8 1, 35-40

Salisbury S. W., Molnar R. E., et al (2006) The origin of modern crocodyliforms: new evidence from the Cretaceous of Australia, Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273, 2439-2448 doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.3613

Sereno P. C., Larsson H. C. E. (2009) Cretaceous crocodyliformes from the Sahara, ZooKeys 28, 1-143 doi:10.3897/zookeys.28.325

O'Connor P. M., Sertich J. J. W., et al (2010) The evolution of mammal-like crocodyliforms in the Cretaceous Period of Gondwana, Nature 466, 748-751 doi:10.1038/nature09061

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

Hastings A. K., Bloch J. I., et al (2011) A new longirostrine dyrosaurid (Crocodylomorpha, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Paleocene of north-eastern Colombia: biogeographic and behavioural implications for New-World Dyrosauridae, Palaeontology 54 5, 1095-1116 doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01092.x

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

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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