Monjurosuchidae
| † Monjurosuchidae Temporal range: Early Cretaceous | |
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| Monjurosuchus fossil | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | † Choristodera |
| Family: | † Monjurosuchidae Endo, 1940 |
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Monjurosuchidae is a family of prehistoric reptiles belonging to the order Choristodera.[1] Until the description of Philydrosaurus in 2005, the only genus in the family was Monjurosuchus.[1] Both lived in what is now China during the Early Cretaceous.[2][3]
References
- 1 2 Ke-Qin Gao & Richard C. Fox (2005). "A new choristodere (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Lower Cretaceous of western Liaoning Province, China, and phylogenetic relationships of Monjurosuchidae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (3): 427–444. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00191.x.
- ↑ Ryoko Matsumoto, Susan E. Evans & Makoto Manabe (2007). "The choristoderan reptile Monjurosuchus from the Early Cretaceous of Japan". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52 (2): 329–350.
- ↑ Ke-Qin Gao, Daniel Ksepka, Hou Lianhai, Duan Ye & Hu Dongyu (2007). "Cranial morphology of an Early Cretaceous monjurosuchid (Reptilia: Diapsida) from Liaoning Province of China and evolution of the choristoderan palate". Historical Biology 19 (3): 215–224. doi:10.1080/08912960601106391.
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