Goniopholididae
| Goniopholidids Temporal range: 196–65Ma Sinemurian - Maastrichtian | |
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| Dollo’s goniopholidid (Unnamed specimen IRSNB R47), Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Brussels | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Neosuchia |
| Family: | †Goniopholididae Cope, 1875 |
Goniopholididae is an extinct family of moderate-sized semi-aquatic crocodyliforms similar to living crocodiles. They lived between the Early Jurassic and the Late Cretaceous.[1][2]
Phylogeny
The following cladogram simplified after an analysis presented by Marco Brandalise de Andrade and colleagues in 2011.[3]
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Geographical distribution
Goniopholidids are known across Laurasia, ranging from North America, Europe and China from the Middle Jurassic,[1][4] and reaching Thailand by the Early Cretaceous.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Steel R. 1973. Crocodylia. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie, Teil 16. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 116 pp.
- ↑ Tykoski RS, Rowe TB, Ketcham RA, Colbert MW. 2002. Calsoyasuchus valliceps, a new crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22 (3): 593-611.
- ↑ Marco Brandalise de Andrade, Richard Edmonds, Michael J. Benton and Remmert Schouten (2011). "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. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00709.x.
- ↑ Maisch MW, Matzke AT, Stohr H. 2003. Sunosuchus (Archosauria, Crocodyliformes) from the Toutunhe Formation (Middle Jurassic) of the Southern Junggar Basin (Xinjiang, NW-China). Geobios 36 (4): 391-400.
- ↑ Lauprasert, K.; Cuny, G.; Buffetaut, E.; Suteethorn, V.; and Thirakhupt, K. (2007). "Siamosuchus phuphokensis, a new goniopholidid from the Early Cretaceous (ante-Aptian) of northeastern Thailand". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 178 (3): 201–216. doi:10.2113/gssgfbull.178.3.201.
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