Mikko's Phylogeny Archive

Crurotarsi – crurotarsan archosaurs; crocodiles and their extinct relatives

After Brusatte, Benton, Desojo & Langer, 2010

Family -level taxonomy of non-crocodylomorph crurotarsans.

<==o Crurotarsi Sereno & Arcucci, 1990 sensu Parrish, 1993
   `--o Crocodylotarsi Gauthier & Padian, 1985
      |-- †Phytosauria Meyer, 1861 [Parasuchia Huxley, 1875]
      `-- Suchia Krebs, 1976 [1974?] sensu Parrish, 1993 (advanced crurotarsans, incl. crocodiles)

Crurotarsi incertae sedis:

    †Parringtonia gracilis

    †Ctenosauriscidae Kuhn, 1964 [Ctenosauridae Kuhn, 1961] [has been treated as advanced rauisuchians by Nesbitt (2003 & 2005)]
        †Ctenosauriscus koeneni (v. Huene) Kuhn 1964 [Ctenosaurus von Huene, 1902 (non Ctenosaurus Fitzinger, 1843)]
        †Hypselorhachis mirabilis Charig, 1967 (nomen nudum?)

<==o Crurotarsi Sereno & Arcucci, 1990 sensu Parrish, 1993
   |?- †Doswellia
   |?- †Tarjadia
   |?- †Parringtonia
   |?-o †Ctenosauriscidae
   |  |-- †Ctenosauriscus
   |  `-- †Hypselorhachis
   `--o Crocodylotarsi Gauthier & Padian, 1985
      |-- †Ornithosuchidae
      `--+--o †Phytosauria
         |  `-- †Phytosauridae
         `--o Suchia
            |--o †Prestosuchidae
            |  `--+-- †Saurosuchus
            |     `--+-- †Prestosuchus Huene, 1942
            |        `-- †Ticinosuchus
            `--+?- †Lewisuchus
               |?- †Turfanosuchus Young, 1973
               `--o Rauisuchiformes
                  |-- †Aetosauria
                  `--o Rauisuchia
                     |--o †Rauisuchidae
                     |  |-- †Lotosaurus
                     |  `--+-- †Fasolasuchus
                     |     `--+-- †Batrachotomus
                     |        `-- †Rauisuchus
                     `--o Paracrocodylomorpha
                        |-- †Gracilisuchus
                        `--+-- †Postosuchus
                           `-- Crocodylomorpha

Reference(s):

• Arcucci, A. B. & Marsicano, C. A., 1998: A distictive new archosaur from the Middle Triassic (Los Chañares Formation) of Argentina.
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• Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
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• Carroll, R. L., 1988: Appendix. 594-648.
  in Carroll, R. L. 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
  –W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698.
• Doyle, K. D. & Sues, H.-D., 1995: Phytosaurs (Reptilia: Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic New Oxford Formation of York County, Pennsylvania.
  –Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 15, #3, pp. 545-553
• Luo, Z, & Wu, X-C., 1994: The small tetrapods of the Lower Lufeng Formation, Yunnan, China. 251-270
  in Fraser, N. C. & Sues, H-D. (eds.) 1994: In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs.
  –Cambridge University Press, New York. 1994. x-435
• Parrish, J. M. 1993: Phylogeny of the Crocodylotarsi, with Reference to Archosaurian and Crurotarsan Monophyly.
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• Sereno, P. C. 1991: Basal Archosaurs: phylogenetic relationships and functional implications.
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