Atoposauridae Temporal range:
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Only known specimen of Atoposaurus oberndorfi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Archosauria |
Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
Clade: | Eusuchia |
Family: | †Atoposauridae Gervais, 1871 |
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Atoposauridae is a family of crocodile-line archosaurs belonging to Neosuchia.[1] The majority of the family are known from Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous marine deposits in France, Portugal, and Bavaria in southern Germany.[2][3][4] The discovery of the genus Aprosuchus, however, extends the duration of the lineage to the end of the Cretaceous in Romania.[5]
Cladogram modified from Buscalioni and Sanz (1988)[1] and Buscalioni and Sanz (1990):[6]
Atoposauridae |
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