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Teleosauridae
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Nominal Author | Cope 1871 |
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Taxon Status | ACTIVE |
Comments | Teleosauridae is defined here to identify a clade of long-snouted forms excluding metriorhynchosaurids and other long-snoted crocodyliforms. Although sometimes excluded from Thalattosuchia (Steel 1973), Teleosauridae is probably most closely related to metriorhynchosaurid thalattoscuhians (Clark 1994). The active definition is stem-based including thalattosuchians more closely related to Teleosaurus cadomensis than to Metriorhynchus geoffroyi. |
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Active Definition |
The most inclusive clade containing Teleosaurus cadomensis (Lamouroux 1820) but not Metriorhynchus geoffroyi Meyer 1832, Crocodylus niloticus (Laurenti 1768).
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> Teleosaurus cadomensis but not Metriorhynchus geoffroyi, Crocodylus niloticus. |
Definitional Author |
Sereno 2005 |
Definition Status | ORIGINAL |
Definition Type | STEM |
Node-Stem Triplet | NO |
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Teleosaurus cadomensis |
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Metriorhynchus geoffroyi, Crocodylus niloticus
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