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Necrosauridae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	38024	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38024

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Necrosauridae

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
-	Lepidosauromorpha
superorder	Lepidosauria
order	Squamata	Oppel 1811
-	Episquamata	Pyron et al. 2013
-	Toxicofera	Vidal and Hedges 2005
suborder	Anguimorpha	Fürbringer 1900
family	Necrosauridae	Hoffstetter 1943

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Necrosauridae	family	belongs to Varanoidea	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1966
Necrosauridae	family	belongs to Varanoidea	stated without evidence	Seiffert, 1975
Necrosauridae	family	belongs to Varanoidea	stated with evidence	Estes, 1983
Necrosauridae	family	belongs to Platynota	stated without evidence	Borsuk-Bialynicka, 1984
Necrosauridae	family	belongs to Squamata	stated without evidence	Nessov, 1988
Necrosauridae	family	belongs to Varanoidea	implied	Carroll, 1988
Necrosauridae	family	belongs to Anguimorpha	stated without evidence	Alifanov, 1993
Necrosauridae	family	belongs to Anguimorpha	stated with evidence	Gao and Hou, 1996
Necrosauridae	family	belongs to Anguimorpha	stated without evidence	Gao and Fox, 1996

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (13%)

First Recorded Appearance

85.8 - 83.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Necrosauridae)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore, insectivore (based on Necrosauridae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Melanosaurinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Necrosaurinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)
Eosaniwa ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Labrodioctes ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Necrosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	59	59.2 Ma Paleocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Proplatynotia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Provaranosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	63.3 Ma Paleocene	55.8 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1943	Necrosauridae Hoffstetter
1966	Necrosauridae Kuhn p. 58
1975	Necrosauridae Seiffert p. 10
1983	Necrosauridae Estes
1984	Necrosauridae Borsuk-Bialynicka p. 35
1988	Necrosauridae Carroll

Year	Name and Author
1988	Necrosauridae Nessov p. 478
1993	Necrosauridae Alifanov p. 9
1996	Necrosauridae Gao and Fox p. 74
1996	Necrosauridae Gao and Hou p. 590
2000	Necrosauridae Alifanov p. 381
2001	Necrosauridae Peng et al. p. 29

References

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

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

Seiffert J. (1975) Upper Jurassic lizards from central Portugal, Contribuição para o conhecimento da Fauna do Kimerridgiano da Mina de Lignito Guimarota (Leiria, Portugal). Serviços Geológicos de Portugal, Memória (Nova Série) 22, 7-85

Estes R. (1983) Sauria terrestria, Amphisbaenia, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie 10A, 1-249

Borsuk-Bialynicka M. (1984) Anguimorphans and related lizards from the Late Cretaceous of the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, Palaeontologia Polonica 46, 5-105

Nessov L. A. (1988) Late Mesozoic amphibians and lizards of Soviet Middle Asia, Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 31 14, 475-486

Alifanov V. (1993) Some peculiarities of the Cretaceous and Palaeogene lizard faunas of the Mongolian people's Republic, Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 3, 9-13

Gao K. -Q., Fox R. C. (1996) Taxonomy and evolution of Late Cretaceous lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from western Canada, Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of natural History 33, 1-107

Gao K. -Q., Hou L. -H. (1996) Systematics and taxonomic diversity of squamates from the Upper Cretaceous Djadochta Formation, Bayan Mandahu, Gobi Desert, People's Republic of China, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33, 578-598

Alifanov V. R. (2000) The fossil record of Cretaceous lizards from Mongolia, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, 368-389

Peng J., Russell A. P., et al (2001) Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occasional Paper 25, 1-54

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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