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Pseudosuchia, the Glossary

Pseudosuchia (from ψεύδος (pseudos), "false" and σούχος (souchos), "crocodile") is one of two major divisions of Archosauria, including living crocodilians and all archosaurs more closely related to crocodilians than to birds.^[1]

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Extant Early Triassic first appearances
Pseudosuchians

Aetosaur

Aetosaurs are heavily armored reptiles belonging to the extinct order Aetosauria (from Greek, ἀετός (aetos, "eagle") and σαυρος (sauros, "lizard")).

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Alfred Romer

Alfred Sherwood Romer (December 28, 1894 – November 5, 1973) was an American paleontologist and biologist and a specialist in vertebrate evolution.

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Alligator

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

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Alligatoridae

The family Alligatoridae of crocodylians includes alligators, caimans and their extinct relatives.

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Apex predator

An apex predator, also known as a top predator or superpredator, is a predator at the top of a food chain, without natural predators of its own.

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Archosaur

Archosauria or archosaurs is a clade of diapsid sauropsid tetrapods, with birds and crocodilians being the only extant representatives. Pseudosuchia and archosaur are extant Early Triassic first appearances.

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Archosauriformes

Archosauriformes (Greek for 'ruling lizards', and Latin for 'form') is a clade of diapsid reptiles encompassing archosaurs and some of their close relatives.

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Arganasuchus

Arganasuchus is an extinct genus of "rauisuchian" (loricatan) archosaur.

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Avemetatarsalia (meaning "bird metatarsals") is a clade of diapsid reptiles containing all archosaurs more closely related to birds than to crocodilians.

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Bathyotica

Bathyotica is a clade of crurotarsan archosaurs that includes the superorder Crocodylomorpha and its sister taxon Erpetosuchus, a small Triassic suchian. Pseudosuchia and Bathyotica are pseudosuchians.

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Batrachotomus

Batrachotomus is a genus of prehistoric archosaur.

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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

The Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the fields of zoology, paleontology, and geology.

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Caiman

A caiman (also cayman as a variant spelling from Taíno kaiman) is an alligatorid belonging to the subfamily Caimaninae, one of two primary lineages within the Alligatoridae family, the other being alligators.

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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.

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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.

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Cladogram

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

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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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.

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Crocodile

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

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Crocodilia

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

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Crocodyliformes

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

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Crocodylomorpha

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

See Pseudosuchia and Crocodylomorpha

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. Pseudosuchia and Crurotarsi are extant Early Triassic first appearances.

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Dasygnathoides

Dasygnathoides is an extinct genus of pseudosuchian from the Late Triassic (Carnian) Lossiemouth Sandstone of Scotland.

See Pseudosuchia and Dasygnathoides

Desmatosuchus

Desmatosuchus (from Greek δεσμός desmos 'link' + σοῦχος soûkhos 'crocodile') is an extinct genus of archosaur belonging to the Order Aetosauria.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Dyoplax

Dyoplax is an extinct genus of pseudosuchian archosaur, possibly an erpetosuchid.

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Early Triassic

The Early Triassic is the first of three epochs of the Triassic Period of the geologic timescale.

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Edwin H. Colbert

Edwin Harris "Ned" Colbert (September 28, 1905 – November 15, 2001)O'Connor, Anahad,, The New York Times, November 25, 2001.

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Eichstätt

Eichstätt is a town in the federal state of Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the district of Eichstätt.

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Erpetosuchidae

Erpetosuchidae is an extinct family of pseudosuchian archosaurs.

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Erpetosuchus

Erpetosuchus is an extinct genus of pseudosuchian from the Late Triassic.

See Pseudosuchia and Erpetosuchus

Erythrosuchus

Erythrosuchus (from ἐρυθρός, 'red' and σοῦχος, 'crocodile') is an extinct genus of archosauriform reptiles from the early Triassic of South Africa.

See Pseudosuchia and Erythrosuchus

Euparkeria

Euparkeria (meaning "Parker's good animal", named in honor of W. K. Parker) is an extinct genus of archosauriform reptile from the Triassic of South Africa.

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Eusuchia

Eusuchia is a clade of neosuchian crocodylomorphs that first appeared in the Early Cretaceous, which includes modern crocodilians.

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Evolution of the Vertebrates

Evolution of the Vertebrates, subtitled "A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time" is a basic paleontology textbook by Edwin H. Colbert, published by John Wiley & Sons.

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Fasolasuchus

Fasolasuchus is an extinct genus of loricatan.

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Gavialidae

Gavialidae is a family of large semiaquatic crocodilians with elongated, narrow snouts.

See Pseudosuchia and Gavialidae

Gracilisuchidae

Gracilisuchidae is an extinct family of suchian archosaurs known from the early Middle Triassic to the early Late Triassic (Anisian – early Carnian) of China, Argentina, and Brazil.

See Pseudosuchia and Gracilisuchidae

Gracilisuchus

Gracilisuchus (meaning "slender crocodile") is an extinct genus of tiny pseudosuchian (a group which includes the ancestors of crocodilians) from the Late Triassic of Argentina.

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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.

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Hesperosuchus

Hesperosuchus is an extinct genus of crocodylomorph reptile that contains a single species, Hesperosuchus agilis.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.

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Jacques Gauthier

Jacques Armand Gauthier (born June 7, 1948, in New York City) is an American vertebrate paleontologist, comparative morphologist, and systematist, and one of the founders of the use of cladistics in biology.

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Jurassic

The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.

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Karl Alfred von Zittel

Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel (25 September 1839 – 5 January 1904) was a German palaeontologist best known for his Handbuch der Palaeontologie (1876–1880).

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Kevin Padian

Kevin Padian (born 1951) is an American paleontologist.

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Ladinian

The Ladinian is a stage and age in the Middle Triassic series or epoch.

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Longisquama

Longisquama is a genus of extinct reptile.

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Loricata

Loricata is a clade of archosaur reptiles that includes crocodilians and some of their Triassic relatives, such as Postosuchus and Prestosuchus. Pseudosuchia and Loricata are extant Early Triassic first appearances.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic Era is the penultimate era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.

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Michael Benton

Michael James Benton One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 8 April 1956) is a British palaeontologist, and professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol.

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Misnomer

A misnomer is a name that is incorrectly or unsuitably applied.

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Monophyly

In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of taxa which meets these criteria.

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Most recent common ancestor

In biology and genetic genealogy, the most recent common ancestor (MRCA), also known as the last common ancestor (LCA), of a set of organisms is the most recent individual from which all the organisms of the set are descended.

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Nile crocodile

The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is a large crocodilian native to freshwater habitats in Africa, where it is present in 26 countries.

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Olenekian

In the geologic timescale, the Olenekian is an age in the Early Triassic epoch; in chronostratigraphy, it is a stage in the Lower Triassic series.

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Ornithomimidae

Ornithomimidae (meaning "bird-mimics") is an extinct family of theropod dinosaurs which bore a superficial resemblance to modern ostriches.

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Ornithosuchidae

Ornithosuchidae is an extinct family of pseudosuchian archosaurs (distant relatives of modern crocodilians) from the Triassic period.

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Ornithosuchus

Ornithosuchus (from ornis, ornithos, "bird" and souchos, "crocodile") is an extinct genus of pseudosuchians from the Late Triassic (Carnian) Lossiemouth Sandstone of Scotland.

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Paracrocodylomorpha

Paracrocodylomorpha is a clade of pseudosuchian archosaurs. Pseudosuchia and Paracrocodylomorpha are extant Early Triassic first appearances.

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Paul Sereno

Paul Callistus Sereno (born October 11, 1957) is a professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago who has discovered several new dinosaur species on several continents, including at sites in Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco and Niger.

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Phylogenetic nomenclature

Phylogenetic nomenclature is a method of nomenclature for taxa in biology that uses phylogenetic definitions for taxon names as explained below.

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Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.

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Phytosaur

Phytosaurs (Φυτόσαυροι in greek, meaning 'plant lizard') are an extinct group of large, mostly semiaquatic Late Triassic archosauriform reptiles.

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Poposauridae

Poposauridae is a family of large carnivorous archosaurs which lived alongside dinosaurs during the Late Triassic.

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Poposauroidea

Poposauroidea is a clade of advanced pseudosuchians.

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Poposaurus

Poposaurus is an extinct genus of pseudosuchian archosaur from the Late Triassic of the southwestern United States.

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Postosuchus

Postosuchus, meaning "Crocodile from Post", is an extinct genus of rauisuchid reptiles comprising two species, P. kirkpatricki and P. alisonae, that lived in what is now North America during the Late Triassic.

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Prestosuchidae

Prestosuchidae (in its widest usage) is a polyphyletic grouping of carnivorous archosaurs that lived during the Triassic.

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Prestosuchus

Prestosuchus (meaning "Prestes crocodile") is an extinct genus of pseudosuchian in the group Loricata, which also includes Saurosuchus and Postosuchus.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.

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Proterochampsia

Proterochampsia is a clade of early archosauriform reptiles from the Triassic period.

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Proterochampsidae

Proterochampsidae is a family of proterochampsian archosauriforms.

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Proterosuchidae

Proterosuchidae is an early family of basal archosauriforms whose fossils are known from the Late Permian and the Early Triassic.

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Pterosaur

Pterosaurs (from Greek pteron and sauros, meaning "wing lizard") are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria.

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Rauisuchia

"Rauisuchia" is a paraphyletic group of mostly large and carnivorous Triassic archosaurs. Pseudosuchia and Rauisuchia are pseudosuchians.

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Rauisuchidae

Rauisuchidae is a group of large (up to) predatory Triassic archosaurs.

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Revueltosaurus

Revueltosaurus ("Revuelto lizard") is an extinct genus of suchian pseudosuchian from Late Triassic (late Carnian to middle Norian stage) deposits of New Mexico, Arizona and North Carolina, United States.

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Rutiodon

Rutiodon ("Wrinkle tooth") is an extinct genus of mystriosuchine phytosaurs from the Late Triassic of the eastern United States.

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Saurosuchus

Saurosuchus (meaning "lizard crocodile") is an extinct genus of large loricatan pseudosuchian archosaurs that lived in South America during the Late Triassic period.

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Sharovipteryx

Sharovipteryx ("Sharov's wing", known until 1981 as Podopteryx, "foot wing") is a genus of early gliding reptiles containing the single species Sharovipteryx mirabilis.

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Shuvosauridae

Shuvosauridae is an extinct family of theropod-like pseudosuchians within the clade Poposauroidea.

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Sister group

In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.

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Sphenosuchia

Sphenosuchia is a suborder of basal crocodylomorphs that first appeared in the Triassic and occurred into the Middle Jurassic.

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Stagonosuchus

Stagonosuchus is an extinct genus of loricatan, or possibly a species of Prestosuchus.

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Sterling Nesbitt

Sterling Nesbitt (born March 25, 1982, in Mesa, Arizona) is an American paleontologist best known for his work on the origin and early evolutionary patterns of archosaurs.

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Suchia

Suchia is a clade of archosaurs containing the majority of pseudosuchians (crocodilians and their extinct relatives). Pseudosuchia and Suchia are extant Early Triassic first appearances and pseudosuchians.

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Taxonomy

Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization.

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Thecodontia

Thecodontia (meaning 'socket-teeth'), now considered an obsolete taxonomic grouping, was formerly used to describe a diverse "order" of early archosaurian reptiles that first appeared in the latest Permian period and flourished until the end of the Triassic period.

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Theropoda

Theropoda (from ancient Greek whose members are known as theropods, is a dinosaur clade that is characterized by hollow bones and three toes and claws on each limb. Theropods are generally classed as a group of saurischian dinosaurs. They were ancestrally carnivorous, although a number of theropod groups evolved to become herbivores and omnivores.

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Ticinosuchus

Ticinosuchus is an extinct genus of suchian archosaur from the Middle Triassic (Anisian - Ladinian) of Switzerland and Italy.

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Triassic

The Triassic (sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya.

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Triassic–Jurassic extinction event

The Triassic–Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event (TJME), often called the end-Triassic extinction, was a Mesozoic extinction event that marks the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods,, and is one of the top five major extinction events of the Phanerozoic eon, profoundly affecting life on land and in the oceans.

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References

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

Also known as Crocodylotarsi, Pseudosuchian, Pseudosuchians.

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Pseudosuchia, the Glossary

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Extant Early Triassic first appearances

Pseudosuchians

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