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Metriorhynchoidea

Metriorhynchoidea
Alcuni metriorhynchoidi geosaurini: Geosaurus, Dakosaurus, Torvoneustes e Plesiosuchus[1]
Stato di conservazione
Fossile
Classificazione scientifica
DominioEukaryota
RegnoAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClasseSauropsida
Sottordine† Thalattosuchia
SuperfamigliaMetriorhynchoidea
Fitzinger, 1843
Sottogruppi

Metriorhynchoidea è una superfamiglia estinta di crocodilomorfi thalattosuchi vissuti nel Giurassico inferiore-Cretaceo inferiore (Toarciano[2]-Valanginiano, forse fino all'età Aptiano[3]) in Europa, Nord America e Sud America. I metriorhynchoidi erano coccodrilli completamente acquatici.[4][5] Nominata da Fitzinger, nel 1843, Metriorhynchoidea contiene taxa basali, come Teleidosaurus, Eoneustes, Magyarosuchus e Zoneait, e la famiglia Metriorhynchidae. È anche noto un taxa senza nome dal Cile.[6]

  1. ^ Young MT, Brusatte SL, de Andrade MB, Desojo JB, Beatty BL, et al. (2012) The Cranial Osteology and Feeding Ecology of the Metriorhynchid Crocodylomorph Genera Dakosaurus and Plesiosuchus from the Late Jurassic of Europe,. PLoS ONE 7(9): e44985. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044985
  2. ^ Attila Ősi, Mark T. Young, András Galácz e Márton Rabi, A new large-bodied thalattosuchian crocodyliform from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Hungary, with further evidence of the mosaic acquisition of marine adaptations in Metriorhynchoidea, in PeerJ, vol. 6, 2018, pp. e4668, DOI:10.7717/peerj.4668.
  3. ^ Alfio A. Chiarenza, Davide Foffa, Mark T. Young, Gianni Insacco, Andrea Cau, Giorgio Carnevale, Rita Catanzariti, The youngest record of metriorhynchid crocodylomorphs, with implications for the extinction of Thalattosuchia, in Cretaceous Research, vol. 56, 2015, pp. 608–616, DOI:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.07.001.
  4. ^ Andrea Cau e Federico Fanti, The oldest known metriorhynchid crocodylian from the Middle Jurassic of North-eastern Italy: Neptunidraco ammoniticus gen. et sp. nov, in Gondwana Research, vol. 19, n. 2, 2011, pp. 550–565, DOI:10.1016/j.gr.2010.07.007.
  5. ^ Mark T. Young, Stephen L. Brusatte, Marcello Ruta e Marco Brandalise de Andrade, The evolution of Metriorhynchoidea (Mesoeucrocodylia, Thalattosuchia): an integrated approach using geometrics morphometrics, analysis of disparity and biomechanics, in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 158, n. 4, 2010, pp. 801–859, DOI:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00571.x.
  6. ^ Mark T. Young e Marco Brandalise de Andrade, What is Geosaurus? Redescription of Geosaurus giganteus (Thalattosuchia: Metriorhynchidae) from the Upper Jurassic of Bayern, Germany, in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 157, n. 3, 2009, pp. 551–585, DOI:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00536.x.

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