Sebecidae
| Sebecidae Temporal range: Paleocene–Middle Miocene | |
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| Skull of Sebecus icaeorhinus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Suborder: | †Notosuchia |
| Branch: | †Sebecosuchia |
| Clade: | †Sebecia |
| Family: | †Sebecidae Simpson, 1937 |
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Bretesuchidae Gasparini, Fernandez & Powell, 1993 | |
Sebecidae is an extinct family of prehistoric mesoeucrocodylian crocodylomorphs. Sebecids were diverse, abundant and broadly distributed in South America (mostly in Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia) during the Cenozoic, until the Middle Miocene;[1] although it has been suggested that at least some forms could have survived until the Miocene-Pliocene boundary in Brazil.[2]
This group included many medium and large - sized genera, from Sebecus to a giant indeterminate unnamed species from the Miocene.[3]
Phylogeny
The following cladogram simplified after Diego Pol and Jaime E. Powell (2011).[1]
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References
- 1 2 Diego Pol and Jaime E. Powell (2011). "A new sebecid mesoeucrocodylian from the Rio Loro Formation (Palaeocene) of north-western Argentina". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: S7–S36. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00714.x.
- ↑ Liccardo, Antonio, and Luiz Carlos Weinschütz. "Registro inédito de fósseis de vertebrados na Bacia Sedimentar de Curitiba (PR)." Revista Brasileira de Geociências 40.3 (2010): 330-338.
- ↑ Salias-Gismondi, R.; Antoine, P. O.; Baby, P.; Brusset, S.; Benammi, M.; Espurt, N.; de Franceschi, D.; Pujos, F.; et al. (2007). MIDDLE MIOCENE CROCODILES FROM THE FITZCARRALD ARCH, AMAZONIAN PERU (PDF). Instituto Geológical y Minero de España. p. 4. ISBN 978-84-7840-707-1. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
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