Protosuchidae
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| Protosuchids Temporal range: Late Triassic - Early Cretaceous
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Family: | †Protosuchidae Brown, 1934 |
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Protosuchidae is a family of basal crocodyliform reptiles that lived from the Late Triassic to the Late Cretaceous. This family should not be confused with Protosuchia, which is an informal evolutionary grade of primitive crocodyliforms
Distribution
[edit | edit source]Triassic protosuchids are known from Lesotho, Argentina, and Arizona. Jurassic protosuchids are known from Nova Scotia, Poland, South Africa, and Arizona. Cretaceous protosuchids are known from China.[1]
Phylogeny
[edit | edit source]Below is a phylogeny of protosuchids modified from Bronzati et al. (2012).[2]
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References
[edit | edit source]- ^ The Paleobiology Database: Protosuchidae
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