Atoposauridae

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]

Atoposauridae Temporal range: Late Jurassic–Late Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Only known specimen of Atoposaurus oberndorfi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauria
Clade:	Pseudosuchia
Clade:	Crocodylomorpha
Clade:	Crocodyliformes
Clade:	Eusuchia
Family:	†Atoposauridae Gervais, 1871
Genera
Alligatorellus Alligatorium Aprosuchus Atoposaurus Knoetschkesuchus Montsecosuchus? Theriosuchus? Varanosuchus
Synonyms
Alligatorellidae Tornier, 1933

Classification

Phylogeny

Cladogram modified from Buscalioni and Sanz (1988)^[1] and Buscalioni and Sanz (1990):^[6]

Atoposauridae	Alligatorium Alligatorellus Atoposaurus Montsecosuchus Theriosuchus

References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.

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