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]
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Atoposauridae is a family of crocodile-line archosaurs belonging to Neosuchia. The majority of the family are known from Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous...
have been historically in flux. Varanosuchus was placed in the family Atoposauridae based on a variety of characters including the broad, altirostral snout...
Formation of North America. Theriosuchus was previously assigned to Atoposauridae, but a 2016 cladistic analysis recovered it as a neosuchian more closely...
single species, for which A. franconicum has priority. A 2016 review of Atoposauridae removed A. franconicum from Alligatorium and placed at Neosuchia incertae...
Upchurch Paul (2016). "Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia"...
specimens show the marks of scavenging. As with other members of the Atoposauridae, Knoetschkesuchus is very small, with K. guimarotae measuring only 55...
Formation Genus Species State Stratigraphic position Material Notes cf. Atoposauridae Indeterminate cf. Bernissartidae Indeterminate cf. Goniopholididae Indeterminate|...
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