Peirosauridae Explained

Peirosauridae is a Gondwanan family of mesoeucrocodylians that lived during the Cretaceous period. It was a clade of terrestrial crocodyliforms that evolved a rather dog-like skull, and were terrestrial carnivores. It was phylogenetically defined in 2004 as the most recent common ancestor of Peirosaurus and Lomasuchinae and all of its descendants. Lomasuchinae is a subfamily of peirosaurids that includes the genus Lomasuchus.[1]

Lomasuchinae was defined in the same 2004 study as the most recent common ancestor of Lomasuchus and Mahajangasuchini and all of its descendants. Mahajangasuchini, also constructed in the study, was defined as the most recent common ancestor of Mahajangasuchus and Uberabasuchus and all of its descendants.[1] However, all more recent phylogenetic analyses placed Mahajangasuchus within its own family, Mahajangasuchidae, along with the newly named Kaprosuchus.[2] [3] [4]

Genera

The following list of genera follows Martinelli et al., 2012 unless otherwise noted.[5]

References

I. d. S. Carvalho, F. M. d. Vasconcellos, and S. A. S. Tavares. (2007). Montealtosuchus arrudacamposi, a new peirosaurid crocodile (Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Late Cretaceous Adamantina Formation of Brazil. Zootaxa 1607:35-46

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Notes and References

  1. Carvalho . I.S. . Ribeiro, L.C.B. . Avilla, L.S. . 2004 . Uberabasuchus terrificus sp. nov., a new Crocodylomorpha from the Bauru Basin (Upper Cretaceous), Brazil . Gondwana Research . 7 . 4 . 975–1002 . 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)71079-0 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706162632/http://acd.ufrj.br/ismar/3/3_15.pdf . 2011-07-06 .
  2. Sereno . P. C. . Larsson, H. C. E. . 2009 . Cretaceous crocodyliforms from the Sahara . ZooKeys . 28 . 1–143 . 10.3897/zookeys.28.325 . free . 2010-08-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100921055501/http://pensoftonline.net/zookeys/index.php/journal/article/view/325 . 2010-09-21 . dead .
  3. Turner . Alan H. . Sertich, Joseph J. W. . 2010 . Phylogenetic history of Simosuchus clarki (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 30 . 6, Memoir 10 . 177–236 . 10.1080/02724634.2010.532348. 86737170 .
  4. Marco Brandalise de Andrade . Richard Edmonds . Michael J. Benton . Remmert Schouten . A new Berriasian species of Goniopholis (Mesoeucrocodylia, Neosuchia) from England, and a review of the genus . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 163 . s1 . S66–S108 . 2011 . 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00709.x.
  5. Agustín G. Martinelli . Joseph J.W. Sertich . Alberto C. Garrido . Ángel M. Praderio . 2012 . A new peirosaurid from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina: Implications for specimens referred to Peirosaurus torminni Price (Crocodyliformes: Peirosauridae) . Cretaceous Research . 37 . 191–200. 10.1016/j.cretres.2012.03.017.
  6. Nicholl CS, Hunt ES, Ouarhache D, Mannion PD . A second peirosaurid crocodyliform from the Mid-Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of Morocco and the diversity of Gondwanan notosuchians outside South America . Royal Society Open Science . 8 . 10 . Article ID 211254 . 2021 . 10.1098/rsos.211254 . 34659786 . 8511751 . free .
  7. Francisco Barrios, Ariana Paulina-Carabajal . Paula Bona . amp . 2015 . A new peirosaurid (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina . Ameghiniana . 53 . 14–25. 10.5710/AMGH.03.09.2015.2903 . 131149565 .
  8. C. F. C. Geroto and R. J. Bertini. 2018. New material of Pepesuchus (Crocodyliformes; Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Bauru Group: implications about its phylogeny and the age of the Adamantina Formation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185(2):312-334

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