| Description | Notosuchus ('southern crocodile') is an extinct genus of South American notosuchian crocodylomorph. It was terrestrial, living approximately 85 million years ago in the Coniacian or Santonian stages of the Late Cretaceous.
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| Rank | genus |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Notosuchus |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Notosuchus |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Scientific Name | Notosuchus Woodward, 1896 |
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| Name Published In | An. Mus. La Plata, 4 (Pal. Argent. 7) |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Notosuchus | genus | belongs to Notosuchinae | stated with evidence | Nopcsa, 1928 | | Notosuchus | genus | belongs to Notosuchidae | stated without evidence | Price, 1959 | | Notosuchus | genus | belongs to Notosuchidae | implied | Carroll, 1988 | | Notosuchus | genus | belongs to Crocodyliformes | stated without evidence | Gauthier et al., 1989 | | Notosuchus | genus | belongs to Metasuchia | stated without evidence | Wu et al., 1994 | | Notosuchus | genus | belongs to Ziphosuchia | stated without evidence | Ortega et al., 2000 | | Notosuchus | genus | belongs to Notosuchia | stated with evidence | Martinelli, 2003 | | Notosuchus | genus | belongs to Mesoeucrocodylia | stated without evidence | Pol and Norell, 2004 | | Notosuchus | genus | belongs to Notosuchidae | stated with evidence | Pol, 2005 | | Notosuchus | genus | belongs to Notosuchia | stated with evidence | Turner, 2006 | | Notosuchus | genus | belongs to Notosuchidae | stated with evidence | Andrade and Bertini, 2008 | | Notosuchus | genus | belongs to Notosuchia | stated without evidence | Novas et al., 2009 | | Notosuchus | genus | belongs to Notosuchidae | stated with evidence | Turner and Sertich, 2010 | | Notosuchus | genus | belongs to Notosuchia | stated with evidence | Iori and Carvalho, 2011 | | Notosuchus | genus | belongs to Ziphosuchia | stated with evidence | Soto et al., 2011 | | Notosuchus | genus | belongs to Notosuchia | stated with evidence | Bronzati et al., 2012 | | Notosuchus | genus | belongs to Ziphosuchia | stated with evidence | Pol et al., 2012 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 86.3 - 83.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 86.3 - 83.6 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) | A. S. Woodward. 1896. On two Mesozoic crocodilians from the red sandstones of the territory of Neuquen (Argentina Republic). Notosuchus (genus novum) and Cynodontosuchus (genus novum). Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina 4:1-20 |
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| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notosuchus |
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| Woodward A. S. On two Mesozoic crocodilians from the red sandstones of the territory of Neuquen (Argentina Republic). Notosuchus (genus novum) and Cynodontosuchus (genus novum), Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina 4, 1-20 |
| Nopcsa B. F. (1928) The genera of reptiles, Palaeobiologica 1, 163-188 |
| Price L. I. (1959) Sobre um crocodilideo notossuquio do Cretacico Brasileiro, Boletim Divisao de Geolgia e Mineralogia Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 188, 1-55 |
| Bonaparte J. F., Powell J. E. (1980) A continental assemblage of tetrapods from the Upper Cretaceous beds of El Brete, northwestern Argentina (Sauropoda-Coelurosauria-Carnosauria-Aves), Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Nouvelle Série 139, 19-28 |
| Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698 |
| Gauthier J. A., Cannatella D., et al (1989) Tetrapod phylogeny, In B. Fernholm, K. Bremer, & H. Jörnvall (eds.), The Hierarchy of Life. Elsevier Science Publishers B. V., Amsterdam, 337-353 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Martinelli A. G. (2003) New cranial remains of the bizarre notosuchid Comahuesuchus brachybuccalis (Archosauria, Crocodyliformes) from the Late Cretaceous of Río Negro Province (Argentina), Ameghiniana 40 4, 559-572 |
| 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 |
| Pol D., Norell M. A. (2004) A New Crocodyliform from Zos Canyon, Mongolia, American Museum Novitates 3445, 1-36 |
| Pol D. (2005) Postcranial remains of Notosuchus terrestris (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes) from the upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina, Ameghiniana 42 1, 21-38 |
| 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 |
| Andrade M. B. d., Bertini R. J. (2008) A new Sphagesaurus (Mesoeucrocodylia: Notosuchia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Monte Alto City (Bauru Group, Brazil), and a revision of the Sphagesauridae, Historical Biology 20 2, 101-136 |
| 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 |
| Novas F. E., Pais D. F., et al (2009) Bizarre notosuchian crocodyliform with associated eggs from the Upper Cretaceous of Bolivia, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 4, 1316-1320 doi:10.1671/039.029.0409 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Iori F. V., Carvalho I. S. (2011) Caipirasuchus paulistanus, a new sphagesaurid (Crocodylomorpha, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Adamantina Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Turonian–Santonian), Bauru Basin, Brazil, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31 6, 1255-1264 |
| Soto M., Pol D., et al (2011) A new specimen of Uruguaysuchus aznarezi (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the middle Cretaceous of Uruguay and its phylogenetic relationships, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163, S173-S198 |
| Bronzati M., Montefeltro F. C., et al (2012) A species-level supertree of Crocodyliformes, Historical Biology 24 6, 598-606 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| original publication/web search (AJR). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| An. Mus. La Plata, 4 (Pal. Argent. 7) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
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