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Taxon
Taxon
Teleosauridae
Nominal Author
Cope 1871
2nd Nominal Author
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.
Potential Synonomy

Active Phylogenetic Definition
Active Definition
The most inclusive clade containing Teleosaurus cadomensis (Lamouroux 1820) but not Metriorhynchus geoffroyi Meyer 1832, Crocodylus niloticus (Laurenti 1768).
Shorthand
> Teleosaurus cadomensis but not Metriorhynchus geoffroyi, Crocodylus niloticus.
Definitional Author
Sereno 2005
Definition Status ORIGINAL
Definition Type STEM
Node-Stem Triplet NO
Other Triplet Taxa
Specifiers
Specifier(s) A
Teleosaurus cadomensis
Specifier(s) B
Specifier(s) C
Metriorhynchus geoffroyi, Crocodylus niloticus
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2005

Inactive Taxon Status
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