曼達鱷屬(學名:Mandasuchus)是勞氏鱷目迅猛鱷科的一屬,化石發現於坦尚尼亞的曼達組(Manda Formation),地質年代為三疊紀中期的拉丁尼階到安尼西階。[1][2]。目前已經發現數個包存狀態良好的標本,但是頭顱骨的化石材料較少。
在1967年,阿爾弗雷德·羅默(Alfred Romer)建立迅猛鱷科,以包含曼達鱷與其他三屬[3][4]。在1965年,艾倫·查理格等人的蜥臀目研究中,提出曼達鱷可能是原蜥腳類的祖先,這個假設目前已被否定[5][6]。在1993年,J. Michael Parrish的鱷型踝關節類(Crocodylotarsi)親緣分支分類法研究中,提出曼達鱷是歐洲鐵沁鱷的次異名,理由是曼達鱷、鐵沁鱷的顱後骨骼部分極度類似[7]。
下属物种
本属包括以下物种:
參考資料
- ^ Richard J. Butler; Sterling J. Nesbitt; Alan J. Charig; David J. Gower; Paul M. Barrett (2018). Mandasuchus tanyauchen, gen. et sp. nov., a pseudosuchian archosaur from the Manda Beds (?Middle Triassic) of Tanzania. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (Supplement to No. 6): 96–121. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1343728.
- ^ Charig, A. J. (1957). New Triassic archosaurs from Tanganyika, including Mandasuchus and Teleocrater: Dissertation Abstracts. Cambridge University.
- ^ Romer, A. S. Vertebrate Paleontology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1967: 468.
- ^ Alcober, O. Redescription of the skull of Saurosuchus galilei (Archosauria: Rauisuchidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 2000, 20 (2): 302–316. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0302:ROTSOS]2.0.CO;2.
- ^ Charig, A. J.; Attridge, J.; and Crompton, A. W. On the origin of the sauropods and the classification of the Saurischia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. 1965, 176: 197–221. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1965.tb00944.x.
- ^ Bonaparte, J. F. Pisanosaurus mertii Casamiquela and the origin of the Ornithischia. Journal of Paleontology. 1976, 50 (5): 808–820.
- ^ Parrish, J. M. Phylogeny of the Crocodylotarsi, with reference to archosaurian and crurotarsan monophyly. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 1993, 13 (3): 287–308. doi:10.1080/02724634.1993.10011511.
- ^ Richard J. Butler, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Alan J. Charig, David J. Gower and Paul M. Barrett. 2018. Mandasuchus tanyauchen, gen. et sp. nov., A Pseudosuchian Archosaur from the Manda Beds (?Middle Triassic) of Tanzania; pp. 96–121 in Christian A. Sidor and Sterling J. Nesbitt (eds.), Vertebrate and Climatic Evolution in the Triassic Rift Basins of Tanzania and Zambia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 17. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37(6, Supplement). DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2017.1343728