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Atoposauridae ✝

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Description

Atoposauridae is a family of crocodile-line archosaurs belonging to Neosuchia. The majority of the family are known from Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous marine deposits in France, Portugal, and Bavaria in southern Germany. The discovery of the genus Aprosuchus, however, extends the duration of the lineage to the end of the Cretaceous in Romania.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4822270	https://www.gbif.org/species/4822270
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	210840	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=210840

Rank

family (GBIF)
unranked clade (PBDB)

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Atoposauridae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Atoposauridae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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
family	Atoposauridae

Scientific Name

Atoposauridae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Atoposauridae	family	belongs to Brevirostres	stated with evidence	Zittel, 1890
Atoposauridae	family	belongs to Eusuchia	stated without evidence	Lortet, 1892
Atoposauridae	family	belongs to Crocodili	stated without evidence	Jaekel, 1911
Atoposauridae	family	belongs to Mesosuchia	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1946
Atoposauridae	family	belongs to Mesosuchia	implied	Carroll, 1988
Atoposauridae	family	belongs to Neosuchia	stated without evidence	Wu et al., 1996
Atoposauridae	family	belongs to Crocodylia	stated without evidence	Thies et al., 1997
Atoposauridae	family	belongs to Neosuchia	stated with evidence	Storrs and Efimov, 2000
Atoposauridae	family	belongs to Metasuchia	stated with evidence	Sereno et al., 2001
Atoposauridae	family	belongs to Crocodyliformes	stated with evidence	Gasparini et al., 2006
Atoposauridae	family	belongs to Neosuchia	stated with evidence	Martin et al., 2010
Atoposauridae	family	belongs to Metasuchia	stated with evidence	Schwarz-Wings et al., 2011
Atoposauridae	family	belongs to Neosuchia	stated with evidence	Montefeltro et al., 2013
Atoposauridae	family	belongs to Eusuchia	stated with evidence	Turner, 2015
Atoposauridae	unranked clade	belongs to Neosuchia	stated with evidence	Tennant et al., 2016

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

172 - 166 Ma
Middle Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Mesoeucrocodylia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Pseudosuchia)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. Gervais. 1871. Remarques au sujet des reptiles provenant des calcaires lithographiques de Cerin, dans le Bugey, qui sont conservés au Musée de Lyon [Remarks on the subject of the reptiles from the lithographic limestones of Cerin, in the Bugey, that are conserved in the Musée de Lyon]. Description des Poissons Fossiles Provenant des Gisements Coralliens du Jura dans le Bugey, par Feu Victor Thiollière. Deuxième Partie Revue et Annotée par M. Paul Gervais. Annales de la Société d'Agriculture, Histoire Naturelle et Arts Utiles de Lyon, 4e série 5:79-85

Wikipedia

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

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Alligatorellus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	157 Ma Jurassic	151 Ma Late Jurassic
Alligatorium ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	157 Ma Jurassic	157 Ma Jurassic
Atoposaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	157 Ma Jurassic	151 Ma Late Jurassic
Hoplosuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	151 Ma Late Jurassic	151 Ma Late Jurassic
Karatausuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	164 Ma Middle Jurassic
Knoetschkesuchus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	157 Ma Jurassic	156 Ma Jurassic
Montsecosuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Theriosuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	40	172 Ma Middle Jurassic	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1890	Atoposauridae Zittel p. 675
1892	Atoposauridae Lortet p. 91
1911	Atoposauridae Jaekel p. 164
1946	Atoposauridae Kuhn p. 64
1966	Atoposauridae Kuhn p. 83
1971	Atoposauridae Wellnhofer p. 136
1988	Atoposauridae Carroll
1996	Atoposauridae Wu et al.
1997	Atoposauridae Thies et al.

Year	Name and Author
2000	Atoposauridae Storrs and Efimov p. 408
2001	Atoposauridae Sereno et al. p. 1518
2003	Atoposauridae Sereno et al.
2006	Atoposauridae Gasparini et al. p. 72
2010	Atoposauridae Martin et al.
2011	Atoposauridae Schwarz-Wings et al.
2013	Atoposauridae Montefeltro et al.
2015	Atoposauridae Turner
2016	Atoposauridae Tennant et al.

References

Gervais P. Remarques au sujet des reptiles provenant des calcaires lithographiques de Cerin, dans le Bugey, qui sont conservés au Musée de Lyon [Remarks on the subject of the reptiles from the lithographic limestones of Cerin, in the Bugey, that are conserved in the Musée de Lyon], Description des Poissons Fossiles Provenant des Gisements Coralliens du Jura dans le Bugey, par Feu Victor Thiollière. Deuxième Partie Revue et Annotée par M. Paul Gervais. Annales de la Société d'Agriculture, Histoire Naturelle et Arts Utiles de Lyon, 4e série 5, 79-85

Zittel K. A. v. , Handbuch der Palaeontologie. I. Abteilung Paleozoologie. III. Band. Vertebrata (Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves) [Handbook of Paleontology. Division I. Paleozoology. Volume III. Vertebrata (Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves)], xii-900

Lortet L. Les reptiles fossiles du bassin du Rhône [The fossil reptiles of the Rhône basin], Archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Lyon 5, 3-139

Jaekel O. (1911) , Die Wirbeltiere. Eine Übersicht über die Fossilen und Lebenden Formen [The Vertebrates. An Overview of the Fossil and Living Forms], viii-252

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

Wellnhofer P. (1971) Die Atoposauridae (Crocodylia, Mesosuchia) der Oberjura-Plattenkalke Bayerns, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 138 5-6, 133-165

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

Thies D., Windolf R., et al (1997) First record of Atoposauridae (Crocodylia: Metamesosuchia) in the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) of Northwest Germany, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 205 3, 393-411

Storrs G. W., Efimov M. B. (2000) Mesozoic crocodyliforms of north-central Eurasia, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, 402-419

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

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

Schwarz-Wings D., Klein N., et al (2011) A new partial skeleton of Alligatorellus (Crocodyliformes) associated with echinoids from the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) lithographic limestone of Kelheim, S-Germany, Fossil Record 14 2, 195-205

Montefeltro F. C., Larsson H. C. E., et al (2013) A new neosuchian with Asian affinities from the Jurassic of northeastern Brazil, Naturwissenschaften 100 9, 835-841 doi:10.1007/s00114-013-1083-9

Turner A. H. (2015) A Review of Shamosuchus and Paralligator (Crocodyliformes, Neosuchia) from the Cretaceous of Asia, PLoS One 10 2, e0118116 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0118116

Tennant J. P., Mannion P. D., et al (2016) Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177, 854-936

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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