Goniopholididae

Goniopholidids
Temporal range: 196–65Ma

Sinemurian - Maastrichtian

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]

Neosuchia
Atoposauridae

Theriosuchus pusillus

Theriosuchus guimarotae


Rugosuchus

Bernissartia

Eusuchia

Stolokrosuchus


Tethysuchia

Thalattosuchia



Goniopholididae

Calsoyasuchus valliceps


"Goniopholis" phuwiangensis

Eutretauranosuchus delfi

"Sunosuchus" junggarensis

Sunosuchus miaoi

Chalawan thailandicus

Siamosuchus phuphokensis

Amphicotylus lucasii

Denazinosuchus kirtlandicus

Nannosuchus gracilidens


Hulkepholis willetti

Anteophthalmosuchus

Dollo’s goniopholidid




Goniopholis

Goniopholis baryglyphaeus

Goniopholis kiplingi

Goniopholis simus














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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Steel R. 1973. Crocodylia. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie, Teil 16. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 116 pp.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Lauprasert, K.; Cuny, G.; Buffetaut, E.; Suteethorn, V.; 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.