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Taxon
Taxon
Atoposauridae
Nominal Author
Gervais 1871
2nd Nominal Author
Taxon Status ACTIVE
Comments

Atoposauridae has been placed within Mesosuchia (Romer 1956, Steel 1973) or Metasuchia (Clark 1994, Sereno et al. 2001) and has included a number of genera such as Alligatorellus, Alligatoriuim, Atoposaurus, and Theriosuchus. Recently the younger Albian-age Pachycheilosuchus trinquei was described as a close relative to known atoposaurids (Rogers 2003).

The active and first definition of Atoposauridae is stem-based. It anchors the definition on the nominotypical species Atoposaurus beaumonti and would include Pachycheilosuchus trinquei as long as it remains more closely related to the former than to another crocodyliform clade.

Potential Synonomy
Atoposaurides (Gervais 1871, French spelling variant)

Active Phylogenetic Definition
Active Definition
The most inclusive clade containing Atoposaurus jourdani Meyer 1850 but not Peirosaurus torminni Price 1955, Araripesuchus gomesii Price 1959, Notosuchus terrestris Woodward 1896, Baurusuchus pachecoi Price 1945, Crocodylus niloticus (Laurenti 1768).
Shorthand
> Atopus beaumonti but not Pierosaurus torminni, Araripesuchus gomesii, Notosuchus terrestris, 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
Atopus beaumonti
Specifier(s) B
Specifier(s) C
Pierosaurus torminni, Araripesuchus gomesii, Notosuchus terrestris, Baurusuchus pachecoi, Crocodylus Qualif
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2005

Inactive Taxon Status
Rejection Criteria
Critique
 

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