偉鱷獸科((學名Titanosuchidae),屬於獸孔目恐頭獸亞目貘頭獸下目,是一科肉食性雜食性(可能也有草食性)動物。如同其他貘頭獸類,偉鱷獸科動物有厚頭顱骨,可能用來互相以頭撞擊。牠們出現在二疊紀中期。牠們有大型犬齒,牠們的門齒非常強壯。偉鱷獸科與其他恐頭獸類是近親,例如麝足獸貘頭獸科。最著名的偉鱷獸科動物包括:姜氏獸偉鱷獸。如同其他恐頭獸類,牠們在二疊紀-三疊紀滅絕事件中滅絕了。

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偉鱷獸科
化石時期:270–260 Ma
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偉鱷獸
科學分類 編輯
界: 動物界 Animalia
門: 脊索動物門 Chordata
綱: 合弓綱 Synapsida
演化支 獸孔類 Therapsida
演化支 真獸孔類 Eutherapsida
亞目: 恐頭獸亞目 Dinocephalia
下目: 貘頭獸下目 Tapinocephalia
科: 偉鱷獸科 Titanosuchidae
Broom, 1903
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參考資料

  • L. D. Boonstra, "The Fauna of the Tapinocephalus Zone (Beaufort Beds of the Karoo)", Annals of the South African Museum, 56 (1) 1969, pp. 1–73
  • Carroll, R. L. Vertebrate paleontology and evolution. -W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988
  • Edwin H. Colbert, Evolution of the Vertebrates, 2nd edition, 1969, John Wiley & Sons
  • James A. Hopson and Herbert R. Barghusen, "An Analysis of Therapsid Relationships", in The Ecology and Biology of Mammal-Like Reptiles ed. by Nocholas Hotton III, Paul D. MacLean, Jan J. Roth and E. Carol Roth, Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington and London, 1986, pp.83–106
  • Gillian M. King, "Anomodontia" Part 17 C, Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology, Gutsav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart and New York, 1988

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