Peirosauridae
Holozoa
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 form, 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, a more recent 2009 phylogenetic analysis placed Mahajangasuchus within its own family, Mahajangasuchidae, along with the newly named Kaprosuchus.[2]
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References
- ^ a b c d Carvalho, I.S.; Ribeiro, L.C.B.; and Avilla, L.S. (2004). "Uberabasuchus terrificus sp. nov., a new Crocodylomorpha from the Bauru Basin (Upper Cretaceous), Brazil". Gondwana Research 7 (4): 975–1002. doi:10.1016/S1342-937X(05)71079-0. http://acd.ufrj.br/ismar/3/3_15.pdf.
- ^ Sereno, P. C.; and Larsson, H. C. E. (2009). "Cretaceous crocodyliforms from the Sahara". ZooKeys 28 (2009): 1–143. http://pensoftonline.net/zookeys/index.php/journal/article/view/325.
- ^ Juan Martín Leardi and Diego Pol (2009). "The first crocodyliform from the Chubut Group (Chubut Province, Argentina) and its phylogenetic position within basal Mesoeucrocodylia". Cretaceous Research 30 (6): 1376–1386. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.08.002.
- ^ a b Candeiro, CRA; Martinelli, AG; Avilla, LS; Rich, TH. et al. (2006). "Tetrapods from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian-Maastrichtian) Bauru Group of Brazil: a reappraisal". Cretaceous Research 27 (6): 923–946. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2006.05.002.
- ^ Campos, Diogenes A.; Gustavo R. Oliveira, Rodrigo G. Figueiredo, Douglas Riff, Sergio A.K. Azevedo, Luciana B. Carvalho and Alexander W.A. Kellner (2011). "On a new peirosaurid crocodyliform from the Upper Cretaceous, Bauru Group, southeastern Brazil". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 83 (1): 317–327. doi:10.1590/S0001-37652011000100020. http://www.scielo.br/pdf/aabc/v83n1/v83n1a20.pdf.
- ^ Carvalho, IS; Vasconcellos, FM; Tavares, SAS et al. (2007). "Montealtosuchus arrudacamposi, a new peirosaurid crocodile (Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Late Cretaceous Adamantina Formation of Brazil". Zootaxa 1607: 35–46.
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