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Atoposauridae
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Nominal Author | Gervais 1871 |
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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).
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> 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 |
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Atopus beaumonti |
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Pierosaurus torminni, Araripesuchus gomesii, Notosuchus terrestris, Baurusuchus pachecoi, Crocodylus Qualif
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