Teleorhinus robustus skull (AMNH 5850) in the American Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Clade:
Archosauria
Clade:
Pseudosuchia
Clade:
Crocodylomorpha
Clade:
Crocodyliformes
Family:
†Pholidosauridae
Genus:
†Terminonaris Osborn, 1904
Species
†T. browni (type species)
†T. robusta (Mook, 1934)
Terminonaris is a genus of extinct pholidosaurid crocodyliforms that lived during the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian and Turonian[1][2]) epoch. The name means: “enlarged snout or nose” at the front of the skull.[3]Terminonaris is an early crocodile, within a subgroup called Mesoeucrocodylia. Its remains have only been found in North America[4] and Europe. Originally known under the generic name Teleorhinus, it was once believed to be a teleosaurid (a family of marine gavial-like thalattosuchians). Both prehistoric crocodiles such as Terminonaris, as well as modern crocodiles, belong to the same group called crocodyliformes, although modern crocodiles have specific features that indicate they are distant relatives of this species and members of the subgroup Eusuchia.
^Wu X-C, Russell AP, & Cumbaa SL. 2001. Terminonaris (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes): new material from Saskatchewan, Canada, and comments on its phylogenetic relationships. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology21(3):492-514.
^Shimada, K., and Parris, D.C., 2007. A long-snouted Late Cretaceous crocodyliform, Terminonaris cf. T. browni, from the Carlile Shale (Turonian) of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science110(1):107-115.
^""Big Bert" Carrot River Crocodile" (PDF).
^Adams, Thomas L.; Polcyn, Michael J.; Mateus, Octávio; Winkler, Dale A.; Jacobs, Louis L. (1 May 2011). "First occurrence of the long-snouted crocodyliform Terminonaris (Pholidosauridae) from the Woodbine Formation (Cenomanian) of Texas". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (3): 712–716. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.572938. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 86061260.
relatively thin teeth suggest that Terminonaris was a hunter of fish, small mammals and possibly small dinosaurs. Terminonaris inhabited the Western Interior...
Within this group it is most closely related to the North American genus Terminonaris. Most members of Pholidosauridae had long, slender snouts and they all...
Baryonychinae; possibly a junior synonym of Baryonyx). The Cenomanian Terminonaris was the Pholidosaurid species that appeared to be the most common during...
of the upper skull, most likely the apex predator in its ecosystem. Terminonaris robusta: A pholidosaurid crocodyliform whose remains have been found...
Thalattosuchia, with both taxa closely related to a clade containing Terminonaris and the Dyrosauridae. In a phylogenetic analysis conducted by Sereno...
Teleorhinus may refer to: Teleorhinus (bug), a genus of bugs Terminonaris, a genus of extinct archosaurs, previously known as Teleorhinus This disambiguation...
taxa used as outgroups in the original analysis, namely Sarcosuchus, Terminonaris and Elosuchus, typically considered to be pholidosaurids (although later...
of a wide variety of marine animals, including the marine crocodile Terminonaris. It is also rich in organic carbon and is therefore an oil shale. The...
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