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Sphagesauridae is a
Gondwanan family of
mesoeucrocodylians that
lived during the Late Cretaceous. It was a
clade of
terrestrial crocodilians that evolved...
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larger and more
robust sphagesaurids, with a
total length of
approximately 2
metres (6.6 ft). Like
other sphagesaurids,
Armadillosuchus had heterodont...
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following cladogram shows the
position of
Caryonosuchus among other sphagesaurids sensu this study.
Caryonosuchus was
first named by
Alexander W. A. Kellner...
- of the
postorbital bar.
Rather than
bearing a
sagittal crest as in
sphagesaurids, the
skull table of
Thilastikosuchus is
characterized by the elongated...
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structure also
present in the
postorbitals of
other notosuchians such as
sphagesaurids,
peirosaurids and uruguaysuchids. However,
unlike in
these groups and...
- predation, not scavenging,
given its size
relation to the prey, as
sphagesaurids were
usually much
smaller than
about one
fourth of
derived baurusuchids...
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Caipirasuchus is an
extinct genus of
sphagesaurid notosuchians known from the Late
Cretaceous of
northern São
Paulo State and
western Minas Gerais State...
- smaller. No
notosuchian had sub-oval
teeth like Razanandrongobe, but some
sphagesaurids had sub-conical teeth. A
phylogenetic analysis conducted by Dal S****o...
- ISSN 0195-6671. Marinho,
Thiago S.; Carvalho,
Ismar S. (2009). "An armadillo-like
sphagesaurid crocodyliform from the Late
Cretaceous of Brazil".
Journal of
South American...
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Sphagesaurus is an
extinct genus of
sphagesaurid notosuchian crocodylomorph from the Late
Cretaceous of
southwest São Paulo,
southern Brazil. Sphagesaurus...
