Baryphracta
| Baryphracta Temporal range: Middle Eocene | |
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| Skeleton of Baryphracta deponiae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Superfamily: | Alligatoroidea |
| Subfamily: | †Diplocynodontinae |
| Genus: | †Baryphracta Frey et al., 1987 |
| Type species | |
| †Baryphracta deponiae Frey et al., 1987 | |
Life restoration of Baryphracta deponiae
Baryphracta is an extinct genus of diplocynodontinecrocodilian. It is closely related to the genera Diplocynodon and Tadzhikosuchus.[1] Fossils have been found from the Messel Pit near Messel, Germany, which was deposited during the Middle Eocene epoch of the Paleogene period. It was not the only crocodilian found from the pit; others include the closely related Diplocynodon as well as crocodylids such as Asiatosuchus and Allognathosuchus.[2] In 1999, the genus was proposed to be synonymous with Diplocynodon,[3] and a subsequent study showed that Baryphracta deponiae is nested within Diplocynodon, which validates this proposed synonymy[4]
References
- ↑ Piras, P.; Buscalioni, A. (2006). "Diplocynodon muelleri comb. nov., an Oligocene diplocynodontine alligatoroid from Catalonia (Ebro Basin, Lleida province, Spain)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 (3): 608–620. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[608:DMCNAO]2.0.CO;2.
- ↑ Morlo, M.; Schaal, S.; Mayr, G.; Seiffert, C. (2004). "An annotated taxonomic list of the Middle Eocene (MP 11) Vertebrata of Messel". Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 252: 95–108.
- ↑ Rossmann, T.; Blume, M. (1999). "Die Krokodil-Fauna der Fossillagerstätte Grube Messel". Ein aktueller Überblick., Natur und Museum, Frankfurt am Main 129 (9): 261–270.
- ↑ Delfino, M.; Smith, T. (2012). "Reappraisal of the morphology and phylogenetic relationships of the middle Eocene alligatoroid Diplocynodon deponiae (Frey, Laemmert, and Riess, 1987) based on a three-dimensional specimen". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32 (6): 1358–1369. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.699484.
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