Jump to content

Goniopholididae

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 68.4.28.33 (talk) at 20:01, 25 December 2013 (Sunosuchus thailandicus renamed Chalawan). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Goniopholidids
Temporal range: 196–65 Ma Sinemurian - Maastrichtian
Dollo’s goniopholidid (Unnamed specimen IRSNB R47), Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Brussels
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Crocodyliformes
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

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. ^ a b 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  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. (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. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)