Temporal range: Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous, 145.5–140.2 Ma[1]
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Fossil of T. pusillus
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Clade:
Archosauria
Clade:
Pseudosuchia
Clade:
Crocodylomorpha
Clade:
Crocodyliformes
Clade:
Neosuchia
Clade:
Eusuchia
Family:
†Atoposauridae
Genus:
†Theriosuchus Owen, 1879
Species
T. pusillus Owen, 1879 (type)
T. grandinaris Lauprasert et al., 2011
T. morrisonensis Foster, 2018
Theriosuchus is an extinct genus of atoposaurid neosuchian from Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous of Europe (Hungary & southern England), Southeast Asia (Thailand) and western North America (Wyoming), with fragmentary records from Middle Jurassic and Early Cretaceous sites in China, Morocco, and Scotland.[2]
^Rio, Jonathan P.; Mannion, Philip D. (6 September 2021). "Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem". PeerJ. 9: e12094. doi:10.7717/peerj.12094. PMC 8428266. PMID 34567843.
^Tennant Jonathan P., Mannion Philip D., Upchurch Paul (2016). "Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 177 (4): 854–936. doi:10.1111/zoj.12400. hdl:10044/1/29026.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
this genus, Theriosuchus ibericus and T. symplesiodon, have been reassigned to the new genus Sabresuchus. On the other hand, Theriosuchus guimarotae from...
from Romania,. Both species were previously assigned under the genus Theriosuchus, as T. ibericus and T. symplesiodon respectively. A 2016 cladistic analysis...
Varanosuchus from the other altirostral crocodylomorph of Cretaceous Thailand, Theriosuchus grandinaris. In addition to contact the premaxillae, maxillae and frontal...
of other bones, which is not seen in the genus of Theriosuchus. However, the taxonomy of Theriosuchus itself is somewhat convoluted. Many recent taxonomic...
R. (1879). "On the Association of dwarf crocodiles (Nanosuchus and Theriosuchus pusilus, e. g.) with the diminutive mammals of the Purbeck Shales". Quarterly...
Eastern Tethys. Venczel, Márton; Codrea, Vlad A. (2019-03-19). "A new Theriosuchus-like crocodyliform from the Maastrichtian of Romania". Cretaceous Research...
semionotids; and the goniopholidid crocodyliforms Sunosuchus, Siamosuchus, and Theriosuchus. The Sao Khua and Khok Kruat Formations had a more semi-arid climate...
contemporary of the choristodere Ikechosaurus and the crocodyliforms Theriosuchus and Shantungosuchus. Young, C.-C. (1964). "New fossil crocodiles from...
Machimosaurus) are known, in addition to the neosuchian genera Goniopholis and Theriosuchus. Machimosaurus and Steneosaurus are also found together in the same Tithonian-age...
partial left mandible (type) and several fragmentary referred fossils. Theriosuchus T. morrisonensis Wyoming A nearly complete left mandible missing teeth...
O. minor has since been proposed to be a synonym of the atoposaurid Theriosuchus pusillus. Two other species, O. lusitanicus and O. pulchelus, are known...
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Abundance Notes Images Theriosuchus Indeterminate Dentary fragment Sauropoda Indeterminate Near Valtos Limb...
paramacellodid lizard; and partial skeletons and skulls from a relative of Theriosuchus now named as the genus Knoetschkesuchus. Teeth from dryolestid mammals...
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