Mounted skeleton of the notosuchian Simosuchus clarki in the Royal Ontario Museum
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Clade:
Archosauria
Clade:
Pseudosuchia
Clade:
Crocodylomorpha
Clade:
Crocodyliformes
Clade:
Mesoeucrocodylia
Clade:
Metasuchia
Clade:
†Notosuchia Gasparini, 1971
Families and genera
†Peirosauroidea
†Mahajangasuchidae
†Peirosauridae
†Uruguaysuchidae?
†Ziphosuchia
†Libycosuchus
†Simosuchus
†Candidodontidae
†Xenodontosuchia
†Chimaerasuchidae
†Comahuesuchidae
†Razanandrongobe?
†Sebecosuchia
†Sphagesauria
†Eptalofosuchus
†Coringasuchus
†Coronelsuchus
†Notosuchidae
†Sphagesauridae
Notosuchia is a suborder of primarily Gondwanan mesoeucrocodylian crocodylomorphs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous. Some phylogenies recover Sebecosuchia as a clade within Notosuchia, others as a sister group (see below); if Sebecosuchia is included within Notosuchia its existence is pushed into the Middle Miocene, about 11 million years ago. Fossils have been found from South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Notosuchia was a clade of terrestrial crocodilians that evolved a range of feeding behaviours, including herbivory (Chimaerasuchus), omnivory (Simosuchus), and terrestrial hypercarnivory (Baurusuchus). It included many members with highly derived traits unusual for crocodylomorphs, including mammal-like teeth, flexible bands of shield-like body armor similar to those of armadillos (Armadillosuchus), and possibly fleshy cheeks and pig-like snouts (Notosuchus). The suborder was first named in 1971 by Zulma Gasparini and has since undergone many phylogenetic revisions.[2]
^Dal Sasso C, Pasini G, Fleury G, Maganuco S. (2017) Razanandrongobe sakalavae, a gigantic mesoeucrocodylian from the Middle Jurassic of Madagascar, is the oldest known notosuchian. PeerJ 5:e3481 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3481
^Gasparini, Z. (1971). "Los Notosuchia del Cretácico de América del Sur como un nuevo Infraorden de los Mesosuchia (Crocodilia)". Ameghiniana. 8: 83–103.
Notosuchia is a suborder of primarily Gondwanan mesoeucrocodylian crocodylomorphs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous. Some phylogenies recover...
superorder Crocodylomorpha. It is split into two main groups, Notosuchia and Neosuchia. Notosuchia is an extinct group that contains primarily small-bodied...
another. Simosuchus was first considered to be a basal member of the clade Notosuchia, and was often considered to be closely related to Uruguaysuchus from...
Crocodyliforms, of which 412 morphological characteristics were studied. Notosuchia according to Diego Pol et al. includes 45 genera and 54 species. In their...
C. L. P. Andrade; Juliana M. Sayão; Gustavo R. Oliveira (2020). "Were Notosuchia (Pseudosuchia: Crocodylomorpha) warm-blooded? A palaeohistological analysis...
relationships. In their study, Sebecosuchia was a derived clade within Notosuchia. Iori and Carvalho (2011) came to similar conclusions, grouping Baurusuchus...
lifestyle over the Jurassic and Cretaceous During the Cretaceous, the Notosuchia were a diverse group across the Southern Hemisphere occupying many diverse...
confidently assign Razanandrongobe as the oldest-known member of the Notosuchia, a group of crocodylomorphs, which partially filled a gap of 74 million...
Ortega et al. and several other studies place Araripesuchus outside Notosuchia. In some phylogenetic analyses, it is placed closer to the clade Neosuchia...
The largest prehistoric animals include both vertebrate and invertebrate species. Many of them are described below, along with their typical range of size...
T. (2016). "Postcranial skeletons of Caipirasuchus (Crocodyliformes, Notosuchia, Sphagesauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian–Santonian) of the...
V.; Langer, M. C.; Montefeltro, F. C. (2024). "A new Baurusuchidae (Notosuchia, Crocodyliformes) from the Adamantina Formation (Bauru Group, Upper Cretaceous)...
Jurassic of Madagascar has been suggested the represent the oldest record of Notosuchia, a primarily Gondwanan clade of mostly terrestrial crocodylomorphs, otherwise...
Sereno and Larsson, 2009: In 2014, Mahajangasuchidae were grouped within Notosuchia: The cladogram following by Nicholl et al. 2021: Sebecosuchia - another...
(2010). "Phylogenetic history of Simosuchus clarki (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology...
J.V.; Langer, M.C.; Montefeltro, F.C. (2023). "A new Baurusuchidae (Notosuchia, Crocodyliformes) from the Adamantina Formation (Bauru Group, Upper Cretaceous)...
Turner and Calvo (2005) considered Sebecosuchia to be the sister taxon of Notosuchia and placed Sebecus as a basal member the clade. Several recent phylogenetic...
Anatosuchus, it formed a clade with Comahuesuchus, within a less inclusive Notosuchia, also found to be monophyletic. However, further work proposed that Anatosuchus...
Ribeiro, L. C. B. (2018). "The first Caipirasuchus (Mesoeucrocodylia, Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Minas Gerais, Brazil: new insights on sphagesaurid...
Sebecidae within Mesoeucrocodylia, often involving its relationship to Notosuchia. Martin, Jeremy (2016). "New material of the ziphodont mesoeucrocodylian...
crocodylomorphs Pristichampsus, Hesperosuchus, and several genera within Notosuchia. Jumping spiders and other non-web based spiders generally walk throughout...
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