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Taxon
Taxon
Notosuchidae
Nominal Author
Dollo 1924
2nd Nominal Author
Taxon Status ACTIVE
Comments

Notosuchidae was established by Dollo (1924) used by Romer (1956) to include Brasileosaurus, Libycosuchus, Notosuchus, Sphagesaurus, and Uruguaysuchus. Steel (1973) limited Notosuchidae to Araripesuchus, Brasileosaurus, Uruguaysuchus and Notosuchus. More recent cladistic work either has added or removed an increasingly diverse assemblage of taxa.

Recently Carvalho et al. (2004) offered an incomplete phylogenetic definition restricting the taxon to Notosuchus, which is thus redundant with the genus. The active definition, in contrast, is stem-based and includes those taxa most closely related to Notosuchus terrestris, while excluding those that have not been included in recent cladistic work.

Potential Synonomy

Active Phylogenetic Definition
Active Definition
The most inclusive clade containing Nototsuchus terrestris Woodward 1896 but not Araripesuchus gomesii Price 1959, Comahuesuchus brachybuccalis Bonaparte 1991, Simosuchus clarki Buckley et al. 2000, Baurusuchus pachecoi Price 1945, Crocodylus niloticus (Laurenti 1768).
Shorthand
> Nototsuchus terrestris but not Araripesuchus gomesii, Comahuesuchus brachybuccalis, Simosuchus clarki, Baurusuchus pachecoi, Crocodylus niloticus.
Definitional Author
Sereno 2005
Definition Status ORIGINAL
Definition Type STEM
Node-Stem Triplet NO
Other Triplet Taxa
Specifiers
Specifier(s) A
Nototsuchus terrestris
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Specifier(s) C
Araripesuchus gomesii, Comahuesuchus brachybuccalis, Simosuchus clarki, Baurusuchus pachecoi,
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The most recent common ancesor of Notosuchus and all of their descendants.
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