Reptilia - Loricata - Pholidosauridae
Full reference: F. de Broin and P. Taquet. 1966. Découverte d'un Crocodilien nouveau dans le Crétacé inférieur du Sahara [Discovery of a new crocodilian in the Lower Cretaceous of the Sahara]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série D 262:2326-2329
Parent taxon: Pholidosauridae according to S. Jouve and N.-E. Jalil 2020
See also Andrade et al. 2011, Bronzati et al. 2012, Carroll 1988, de Broin and Taquet 1966, Fortier et al. 2011, Gasparini et al. 2006, Jouve et al. 2006, Larsson and Sues 2007, Martin and Buffetaut 2012, Martin et al. 2010, Nascimento and Zaher 2011, Sepkoski 2002, Sereno et al. 2001, Sereno et al. 2003, Sertich and O'Connor 2014 and Souza et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Anglosuchus, Chalawan, Dakotasuchus, Meridiosaurus, Oceanosuchus, Petrosuchus, Pholidosaurus, Sabinosuchus, Terminonaris, Woodbinesuchus, Rhabdosaurus
Subtaxa: Sarcosuchus hartti Sarcosuchus imperator
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (2 collections), Brazil (5), Mali (1), Morocco (2), Niger (3), Tunisia (2)
Total: 15 collections including 16 occurrences
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