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Crocodyliformes, the Glossary

Crocodyliformes is a clade of crurotarsan archosaurs, the group often traditionally referred to as "crocodilians".^[1]

97 relations: Adamantinasuchus, Alligator, Anatosuchus, Angola, Aptian, Araripesuchus, Archosaur, Barcinosuchus, Baurusuchus, Bergisuchus, Bretesuchus, Caipirasuchus, Candidodon, Caririsuchus, Carnivore, Chimaerasuchus, Clade, Cladogram, Comahuesuchus, Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, Crocodile, Crocodilia, Crocodylomorpha, Crown group, Crurotarsi, Dibothrosuchus, Doratodon, Early Cretaceous, Edentosuchus, Entradasuchus, Eopneumatosuchus, Eremosuchus, Fruitachampsa, Gharial, Gobiosuchidae, Gobiosuchus, Hamadasuchus, Hemiprotosuchus, Herbivore, Hsisosuchus, Iberosuchus, Itasuchus, Kaprosuchus, Kayentasuchus, Kemkemia, Langstonia, Late Triassic, Libycosuchus, Lomasuchus, Mahajangasuchus, ... Expand index (47 more) »

Adamantinasuchus

Adamantinasuchus is an extinct genus of notosuchian crocodylomorph from and named after the Late Cretaceous Adamantina Formation of Brazil.

See Crocodyliformes and Adamantinasuchus

Alligator

An alligator, or colloquially gator, is a large reptile in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae of the order Crocodilia.

See Crocodyliformes and Alligator

Anatosuchus ("duck crocodile", the name from the Latin anas ("duck") and the Greek souchos ("crocodile"), for the broad, duck-like snout) is an extinct genus of notosuchian crocodyliforms discovered in Gadoufaoua, Niger, and described by a team of palaeontologists led by the American Paul Sereno in 2003, in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

See Crocodyliformes and Anatosuchus

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.

See Crocodyliformes and Angola

Aptian

The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column.

See Crocodyliformes and Aptian

Araripesuchus

Araripesuchus is a genus of extinct crocodyliform that existed during the Cretaceous period of the late Mesozoic era some 125 to 66 million years ago.

See Crocodyliformes and Araripesuchus

Archosaur

Archosauria or archosaurs is a clade of diapsid sauropsid tetrapods, with birds and crocodilians being the only extant representatives.

See Crocodyliformes and Archosaur

Barcinosuchus

Barcinosuchus (meaning "Cerro Barcino Formation's crocodile") is an extinct genus of carnivorous metasuchian from the early Cretaceous period.

See Crocodyliformes and Barcinosuchus

Baurusuchus

Baurusuchus is an extinct genus of baurusuchid mesoeucrocodylian, which lived in Brazil from 90 to 83.5 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous period.

See Crocodyliformes and Baurusuchus

Bergisuchus

Bergisuchus is an extinct genus of small sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian known primarily from the Eocene Messel Pit in Germany.

See Crocodyliformes and Bergisuchus

Bretesuchus

Bretesuchus is an extinct genus of sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian within the family Sebecidae known from northwestern Argentina.

See Crocodyliformes and Bretesuchus

Caipirasuchus

Caipirasuchus is an extinct genus of sphagesaurid notosuchians known from the Late Cretaceous of northern São Paulo State and western Minas Gerais State, southeastern Brazil.

See Crocodyliformes and Caipirasuchus

Candidodon

Candidodon is an extinct genus of notosuchian mesoeucrocodylian.

See Crocodyliformes and Candidodon

Caririsuchus

Caririsuchus is an extinct genus of peirosaurid crocodylomorph.

See Crocodyliformes and Caririsuchus

Carnivore

A carnivore, or meat-eater (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning meat or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose food and energy requirements are met by the consumption of animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other soft tissues) whether through hunting or scavenging.

See Crocodyliformes and Carnivore

Chimaerasuchus

Chimaerasuchus ("chimera crocodile") is an extinct genus of Chinese crocodyliform from the Early Cretaceous Wulong Formation.

See Crocodyliformes and Chimaerasuchus

Clade

In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.

See Crocodyliformes and Clade

Cladogram

A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.

See Crocodyliformes and Cladogram

Comahuesuchus

Comahuesuchus is an extinct genus of notosuchian crocodylomorphs from the late Cretaceous of Argentina.

See Crocodyliformes and Comahuesuchus

Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth approximately 66 million years ago.

See Crocodyliformes and Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

Crocodile

Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.

See Crocodyliformes and Crocodile

Crocodilia

Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both) is an order of semiaquatic, predatory reptiles known as crocodilians.

See Crocodyliformes and Crocodilia

Crocodylomorpha

Crocodylomorpha is a group of pseudosuchian archosaurs that includes the crocodilians and their extinct relatives.

See Crocodyliformes and Crocodylomorpha

Crown group

In phylogenetics, the crown group or crown assemblage is a collection of species composed of the living representatives of the collection, the most recent common ancestor of the collection, and all descendants of the most recent common ancestor.

See Crocodyliformes and Crown group

Crurotarsi

Crurotarsi is a clade of archosauriform reptiles that includes crocodilians and stem-crocodilians and possibly bird-line archosaurs too if the extinct, crocodile-like phytosaurs are more distantly related to crocodiles than traditionally thought.

See Crocodyliformes and Crurotarsi

Dibothrosuchus

Dibothrosuchus is a genus of sphenosuchian, a type of basal crocodylomorph, the clade that comprises the crocodilians and their closest kin.

See Crocodyliformes and Dibothrosuchus

Doratodon

Doratodon is an extinct genus of Late Cretaceous crocodylomorph that may have been a member of the Sebecosuchia.

See Crocodyliformes and Doratodon

Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name) is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.

See Crocodyliformes and Early Cretaceous

Edentosuchus

Edentosuchus is a genus of protosuchian crocodyliform. Crocodyliformes and Edentosuchus are crocodyliforms.

See Crocodyliformes and Edentosuchus

Entradasuchus

Entradasuchus (meaning "Entrada crocodile") is a genus of crocodyliform, an early member of the group including crocodilians. Crocodyliformes and Entradasuchus are crocodyliforms.

See Crocodyliformes and Entradasuchus

Eopneumatosuchus

Eopneumatosuchus is an extinct genus of basal crocodyliform. Crocodyliformes and Eopneumatosuchus are crocodyliforms.

See Crocodyliformes and Eopneumatosuchus

Eremosuchus

Eremosuchus is an extinct genus of sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian.

See Crocodyliformes and Eremosuchus

Fruitachampsa

Fruitachampsa is a genus of shartegosuchid crocodyliform from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Colorado. Crocodyliformes and Fruitachampsa are crocodyliforms.

See Crocodyliformes and Fruitachampsa

Gharial

The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus), also known as gavial or fish-eating crocodile, is a crocodilian in the family Gavialidae and among the longest of all living crocodilians.

See Crocodyliformes and Gharial

Gobiosuchidae

Gobiosuchidae is a family of Cretaceous crocodyliforms known from Mongolia and Spain. Crocodyliformes and Gobiosuchidae are crocodyliforms.

See Crocodyliformes and Gobiosuchidae

Gobiosuchus

Gobiosuchus ("Gobi crocodile") was a gobiosuchid crocodyliform described in 1972 by Polish palaeontologist Halszka Osmólska. Crocodyliformes and Gobiosuchus are crocodyliforms.

See Crocodyliformes and Gobiosuchus

Hamadasuchus

Hamadasuchus is an extinct genus of sebecian crocodylomorph.

See Crocodyliformes and Hamadasuchus

Hemiprotosuchus

Hemiprotosuchus is an extinct genus of protosuchid crocodyliform from the Late Triassic (Norian stage) Los Colorados Formation of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin in northwestern Argentina, South America. Crocodyliformes and Hemiprotosuchus are crocodyliforms.

See Crocodyliformes and Hemiprotosuchus

Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.

See Crocodyliformes and Herbivore

Hsisosuchus

Hsisosuchus is an extinct genus of crocodyliform from China. Crocodyliformes and Hsisosuchus are crocodyliforms.

See Crocodyliformes and Hsisosuchus

Iberosuchus

Iberosuchus (meaning "Iberian crocodile") is a genus of extinct sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian found in Western Europe from the Eocene.

See Crocodyliformes and Iberosuchus

Itasuchus

Itasuchus is an extinct genus of crocodyliforms from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil.

See Crocodyliformes and Itasuchus

Kaprosuchus

Kaprosuchus is an extinct genus of mahajangasuchid crocodyliform.

See Crocodyliformes and Kaprosuchus

Kayentasuchus

Kayentasuchus (meaning "Kayenta Formation crocodile") is a genus of sphenosuchian, a type of basal crocodylomorph, the clade that comprises the crocodilians and their closest kin.

See Crocodyliformes and Kayentasuchus

Kemkemia

Kemkemia is a genus of probable crocodyliforms living in the Cretaceous, described from a single fossil that was recovered in 1999 from Morocco by an Italian team searching for fossil invertebrates. Crocodyliformes and Kemkemia are crocodyliforms.

See Crocodyliformes and Kemkemia

Langstonia

Langstonia (meaning " of Langston", in honor of paleontologist Wann Langston, Jr.) is an extinct genus of notosuchian crocodylomorph of the family Sebecidae.

See Crocodyliformes and Langstonia

Late Triassic

The Late Triassic is the third and final epoch of the Triassic Period in the geologic time scale, spanning the time between Ma and Ma (million years ago).

See Crocodyliformes and Late Triassic

Libycosuchus

Libycosuchus is an extinct genus of North African crocodyliform possibly related to Notosuchus;Buffetaut, E. 1982.

See Crocodyliformes and Libycosuchus

Lomasuchus

Lomasuchus is an extinct genus of peirosaurid notosuchian known from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian stage) of Neuquén Province, western central Argentina.

See Crocodyliformes and Lomasuchus

Mahajangasuchus

Mahajangasuchus is an extinct genus of crocodyliform which had blunt, conical teeth.

See Crocodyliformes and Mahajangasuchus

Malawisuchus

Malawisuchus (meaning "Malawi crocodile") is an extinct genus of notosuchian mesoeucrocodylian from the Early Cretaceous Dinosaur Beds of Malawi.

See Crocodyliformes and Malawisuchus

Mariliasuchus

Mariliasuchus ("Marilia crocodile") is an extinct genus of Late Cretaceous notosuchian crocodyliforms found near Marilia, Brazil.

See Crocodyliformes and Mariliasuchus

Maximum parsimony (phylogenetics)

In phylogenetics and computational phylogenetics, maximum parsimony is an optimality criterion under which the phylogenetic tree that minimizes the total number of character-state changes (or minimizes the cost of differentially weighted character-state changes).

See Crocodyliformes and Maximum parsimony (phylogenetics)

Mesoeucrocodylia

Mesoeucrocodylia is the clade that includes Eusuchia and crocodyliforms formerly placed in the paraphyletic group Mesosuchia. Crocodyliformes and Mesoeucrocodylia are crocodyliforms.

See Crocodyliformes and Mesoeucrocodylia

Metasuchia is a major clade within the superorder Crocodylomorpha. Crocodyliformes and Metasuchia are crocodyliforms.

See Crocodyliformes and Metasuchia

Miadanasuchus

Miadanasuchus is an extinct genus of peirosaurid which existed in the Maevarano Formation of Madagascar during the late Cretaceous period (Campanian age).

See Crocodyliformes and Miadanasuchus

Microchampsa

Microchampsa is an extinct genus of protosuchian crocodyliform that existed during the Early Jurassic. Crocodyliformes and Microchampsa are crocodyliforms.

See Crocodyliformes and Microchampsa

Montealtosuchus

Montealtosuchus is an extinct genus of terrestrial crocodyliform.

See Crocodyliformes and Montealtosuchus

Neosuchia

Neosuchia is a clade within Mesoeucrocodylia that includes all modern extant crocodilians and their closest fossil relatives.

See Crocodyliformes and Neosuchia

Neuquensuchus

Neuquensuchus (meaning "Neuquén crocodile", referring to the city) is an extinct genus of crocodyliform from the Santonian-age Upper Cretaceous Bajo de la Carpa Formation of Neuquén Province, Argentina. Crocodyliformes and Neuquensuchus are crocodyliforms.

See Crocodyliformes and Neuquensuchus

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodyliformes

Also known as Crocodyliform, Crocodyliforms.

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