Ziphosuchia
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| Ziphosuchia Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Middle Miocene, 90–11Ma | |
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| Life restoration of Notosuchus terrestris | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Metasuchia |
| Suborder: | †Notosuchia |
| Node: | †Ziphosuchia Ortega et al., 2000 |
Ziphosuchia is a clade of mesoeucrocodylian crocodyliforms that includes notosuchians and sebecosuchians. First constructed in 2000, it was considered to include Notosuchus, Libycosuchus, and Sebecosuchia.[1][2] In a 2004 phylogenetic study, it was defined as the most recent common ancestor of Notosuchus, Libycosuchus, and Baurusuchoidea and all of its descendants.[3]
Ziphosuchia is often considered to be the sister group of Neosuchia, a clade that includes modern crocodilians. Because the fossil range of Neosuchia extends back to the Early Jurassic with the family Goniopholididae, a ghost lineage of ziphosuchians dating back to that divergence point can be expected.[4]
References
- ↑ Ortega, F.; Gasparini, Z.; Buscalioni, A.D.; and Calvo, J.O. (2000). "A new species of Araripesuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20 (1): 57–76. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0057:ANSOAC]2.0.CO;2.
- ↑ Company, J.; Suberbiola, X.A.; Ruiz-Omeñaca, J.I.; and Buscalioni, A.D. (2005). "A new species of Doratodon (Crocodyliformes: Ziphosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Spain". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 (2): 343–353. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0343:ANSODC]2.0.CO;2.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Buscalioni, A.D.; Schulp, A.S.; Jagt, J.W.M.; Hanna, S.S.; and Hartman, A.F. (2004). "Late Cretaceous neosuchian crocodiles from the Sultanate of Oman". Cretaceous Research 25 (2004): 267–275. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2003.12.004.
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