Extinct family of reptiles
Atoposauridae is a family of crocodile -like archosaurs belonging to Neosuchia .[ 1] The majority of the family are known from Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous marine deposits in France , Portugal , and Bavaria in southern Germany .[ 2] [ 3] [ 4] The discovery of the genus Aprosuchus , however, extends the duration of the lineage to the end of the Cretaceous in Romania .[ 5]
Classification
Phylogeny
Cladogram modified from Buscalioni and Sanz (1988)[ 1] and Buscalioni and Sanz (1990):[ 6]
References
^ a b Buscalioni, Angela D; José Luis Sanz (1988). "Phylogenetic relationships of the Atoposauridae (Archosauria, Crocodylomorpha)" . Historical Biology . 1 (3): 233–250. Bibcode :1988HBio....1..233B . doi :10.1080/08912968809386477 .
^ Tennant, Jonathan P.; Mannion, Philip D.; Upchurch, Paul (2016). "Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia" (PDF) . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 177 (4): 854–936. doi :10.1111/zoj.12400 .
^ Schwarz, Daniela; Raddatz, Maik; Wings, Oliver (2017-02-15). "Knoetschkesuchus langenbergensis gen. nov. sp. nov., a new atoposaurid crocodyliform from the Upper Jurassic Langenberg Quarry (Lower Saxony, northwestern Germany), and its relationships to Theriosuchus" . PLOS ONE . 12 (2): e0160617. Bibcode :2017PLoSO..1260617S . doi :10.1371/journal.pone.0160617 . ISSN 1932-6203 . PMC 5310792 . PMID 28199316 .
^ Tennant, Jonathan P.; Mannion, Philip D. (2014-09-25). "Revision of the Late Jurassic crocodyliform Alligatorellus, and evidence for allopatric speciation driving high diversity in western European atoposaurids" . PeerJ . 2 : e599. doi :10.7717/peerj.599 . ISSN 2167-8359 . PMC 4179893 . PMID 25279270 .
^ Márton Venczel; Vlad A. Codrea (2019). "A new Theriosuchus -like crocodyliform from the Maastrichtian of Romania". Cretaceous Research . 100 : 24–38. Bibcode :2019CrRes.100...24V . doi :10.1016/j.cretres.2019.03.018 . S2CID 133729562 .
^ 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 . 10 (2): 244–254. Bibcode :1990JVPal..10..244B . doi :10.1080/02724634.1990.10011810 .