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Protosuchus (from Gr****: protos, "first" and Gr****: souchos, "crocodile") is an
extinct genus of
carnivorous crocodyliform from the
Early Jur****ic. It...
- in 2001, Paul
Sereno and
colleagues defined it as the
clade including Protosuchus richardsoni and the Nile crocodile, plus all
descendants of
their common...
- been
recovered from the formation, with only one species-level taxon,
Protosuchus richardsoni,
based on body fossils.
Anomoepus – "footprints" Batrachopus...
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armored herbivorous reptile), but was
eventually shown to be
related to
Protosuchus and thus
closer to the
ancestry of crocodilians.
Stegomosuchus is also...
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Erythrochampsa Hemiprotosuchus Hoplosuchus Orthosuchus? Pedeticosaurus?
Protosuchus †Notochampsidae
Notochampsa Orthosuchus? †Gobiosuchidae C****issuchus...
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containing Macrospondylus bollensis and
Thalattosuchus superciliosus, but not
Protosuchus richardsoni,
Notosuchus terrestris,
Peirosaurus tormini, Anteophthalmosuchus...
- M****ospondylus, the
ornithischian Lesothosaurus, and
crocodylomorphs like
Protosuchus, as well as the
theropod Megapnosaurus and
synapsids like Diarthrognathus...
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Erythrochampsa Hemiprotosuchus Hoplosuchus Orthosuchus? Pedeticosaurus?
Protosuchus †Notochampsidae
Notochampsa Orthosuchus? †Gobiosuchidae C****issuchus...
- Nonetheless, it is
considered to be more
derived than
protosuchians such as
Protosuchus,
found from the
Moenave Formation,
whose deposition preceded that of...
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Buffetaut et al.
found that
Hemiprotosuchus was the
sister taxon of
Protosuchus. Bonaparte, J.F. (1969). "Dos
nuevas 'faunas' de
reptiles triasicos de...
