Mikko's Phylogeny Archive Non-Avian Archosaur Groups   Neosuchia

After Sereno, Larsson, Sidor & Gado, 2001

<==o Neosuchia sensu Sereno, Larsson, Sidor & Gado, 2001
   |--+?- †Eutretauranosuchus [is a goniopholidid? (Tykoski, 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 Dollo, 1883 [Bernissartiidae]
      `--+-- “Las Hoyas neosuchi”
         |-- †Gilchristosuchus palatinus Wu & Brinkman, 1993
         |-- †Rugosuchus nongenensis Wu, Cheng & Russell, 2001
         |?- †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.

Reference(s):

Averianov, A. O., 2000: Sunosuchus sp. (Crocodylomorpha, Goniopholidae) from the Middle Jurassic of Kirghisia.
–Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 20, #4, pp. 776-779

Buscalioni, A. D. & Sanz, J. L., 1990: Montsecosuchus depereti (Crocodylomorpha, Atoposauridae), new denomination for Alligatorium depereti Vidal, 1915 (Early Cretaceous, Spain): Redescription and phylogenetic relationships.
–Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 10, #2, pp. 244-254

Brochu, C. A. 1997: A review of "Leidyosuchus" (Crocodyliformes, Eusuchia) from the Cretaceous through Eocene of North America.
–Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: vol. 17, #4, pp. 679-697

Clark, J. M. 1994: Patterns of evolution in Mesozoic Crocodyliformes. 84-97
in Fraser, N. C. & Sues, H-D. 1994: In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs.
--Cambridge University Press, New York. 1994

Ortega, F., Gasparini, Z., Buscalioni, A. D. & Calvo, J. O., 2000: A new species of Araripesuchus (Crocodylomorpha: Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina).
–Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 20, #1, pp. 57-76

Sereno, P. C., Larsson, H. C. E., Sidor, C. A. & Gado, B., 2001: The giant crocodyliform Sarcosuchus from the Cretaceous of Africa.
–iNet: Sciencexpress: www.sciencexpress.org; 10.1126/science.1066521

Storrs, G. W. & Efimov, M. B., 2000: Mesozoic crocodyliforms of north-central Eurasia. 402-419
in Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unvin, D. M. & Kurochkin, E. N., (eds.) 2000: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia.
--Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000 xxxix-696

Wu, X.-C., Cheng, Z.-W. & Russell, A. P., 2001: Cranial anatomy of a new crocodyliform (Archosauria: Crocodylomorpha) from the Lower Cretaceous of Song-Liao Plain, northeastern China.
--Canadian Journal of Earth Sciencies: Vol. 38, #12, pp. 1653-1663

Wu, X.-C., Russell, A. P. & Cumbaa, S. L., 2001: Terminonaris (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes): New material from Saskatchewan, Canada, and comments on its phylogenetic relationships.
–Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 21, #3, pp. 492-514