After Sereno, Larsson, Sidor & Gado, 2001, and Sereno, Sidor, Larsson & Gado, 2003
<==o Metasuchia sensu Sereno, Larsson, Sidor & Gado, 2001 |?- †Itasuchus jesuinoi Price, 1955 |?-o †Uruguaysuchus [Uruguaysuchidae Gasparini, 1981] | |-- †U. aznarezi | `-- †U. terrai |--o †Notosuchia sensu Sereno, Larsson, Sidor & Gado, 2001 | |--o †Comahuesuchidae Bonaparte, 1991 [placed in ] | | |-- †Comahuesuchus brachibuccalis | | `-- †Anatosuchus minor Sereno, Sidor, Larsson & Gado, 2003 (widenosed crocodile from Niger; nigerinleveäkuonokrokotiili) | `--+-- †Simosuchus clarki Buckley, Brochu, Krause & Pol, 2000 (Madagascarine pugnosed-crocodile; madagaskarinporsaskrokotiili) | `--+--o †Araripesuchus | | |?- †A. wegeneri | | `--+-- †A. patagonicus | | `-- †A. gomesii | `-- †Ziphosuchia sensu Ortega, Gasparini, Buscalioni & Calvo, 2000 `--+--o †Atoposauridae Broili, 1932? sensu Buscalioni & Sanz, 1988 | |-- †Atoposaurus sp. | |-- †Hoplosuchus kayi | |?- †Karatausuchus sharovi Efimov, 1976 | |--+-- †Alligatorellus beaumonti | | `-- †Alligatorium meyeri | `--+-- †Montsecosuchus deperati (Vidal, 1915) sensu Buscalioni & Sanz, 1990 | `-- †Theriosuchus pusillus `--+--o †Peirosauridae Gasparini, 1982 sensu Sereno, Larsson, Sidor & Gado, 2001, and Sereno, Sidor, Larsson & Gado, 2003 | |-- †Stolokrosuchus lapparenti Larsson & Gado, 2000 | `--o †Peirosauridae Gasparini, 1982 sensu Carvalho, Ribeiro & Avilla, 2004 | |-- †Peirosaurus tormini Price, 1955 | `--o †Lomasuchinae Carvalho, Ribeiro & Avilla, 2004 | |-- †Lomasuchus palpebrosus Casparini, Chiappe & Fernandez, 1991 | `--o †Mahajangasuchini Carvalho, Ribeiro & Avilla, 2004 | |-- †Mahajangasuchus insignis | `-- †Uberabasuchus terrificus Carvalho, Ribeiro & Avilla, 2004 `--o Neosuchia sensu Sereno, Larsson, Sidor & Gado, 2001 (modernit krokotiilit) |--+?- †Eutretauranosuchus [is a goniopholidid? (Tykoski, T. B. Rowe, Ketcham & M. W. Colbert, 2002)] | `--+-- †Goniopholididae Cope, 1875 | `--+-- †Pholidosauridae | `--+-- †Dyrosauridae | `--+--o †Sarcosuchus | | |-- †S. imperator | | `-- †S. hartii | `--o †Terminonaris Osborn, 1904 [Teleorhinus] | |-- †T. robusta Mook, 1934 [Terminonaris robustus; Teleorhinus robusta; Teleorhinus robustus; Teleorhinus mesabiensis Erickson, 1969] | |-- †T. sp. cf. T. browni | `-- †T. browni (Osborn, 1904) [Teleorhinus] `--+-- †Bernissartia fagesii [Bernissartiidae] `--+-- "Las Hoyas neosuchi" |-- †Gilchristosuchus palatinus Wu & Brinkman, 1993 |?- †Paralligatoridae Konzhukova, 1954 `-- Eusuchia Huxley, 1875 (nykykrokotiilit)
Note:
Sereno et al., 2001 define Metasuchia as: "Notosuchus terrestris, Crocodylus niloticus and all descendants of their common ancestor."
One is amused to notice that this definition and the tree that goes with it closely correspondens with the tree presented by Clark, 1994, the main difference being the splitting of Clark's Dyrosauridae-Thalattosuchia -clade, which was poorly supported (Clark, 1994), and makes a lot of more sense, when one consideries both temporal and paleogeographic distribution of these animals.
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