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Baurusuchidae
Taxonomy
Baurusuchidae was named by Price (1945). It was considered monophyletic by Nascimento and Zaher (2011).
It was reranked as the unranked clade Baurusuchidae by Darlim et al. (2021).
It was assigned to Sebecosuchia by Buffetaut (1982); to Mesosuchia by Price (1945) and Carroll (1988); to Sebecosuchia by Colbert (1946), Kuhn (1966) and Gasparini et al. (1991); to Baurusuchoidea by Carvalho et al. (2004); to Crocodyliformes by Carvalho et al. (2005); to Baurusuchia by Walker (1970) and Montefeltro et al. (2011); to Notosuchia by Andrade and Bertini (2008) and Nascimento and Zaher (2011); to Mesoeucrocodylia by Godoy et al. (2014); to Sebecosuchia by Turner and Calvo (2005), Pol et al. (2012) and Pol et al. (2014); and to Baurusuchia by Darlim et al. (2021).
It was reranked as the unranked clade Baurusuchidae by Darlim et al. (2021).
It was assigned to Sebecosuchia by Buffetaut (1982); to Mesosuchia by Price (1945) and Carroll (1988); to Sebecosuchia by Colbert (1946), Kuhn (1966) and Gasparini et al. (1991); to Baurusuchoidea by Carvalho et al. (2004); to Crocodyliformes by Carvalho et al. (2005); to Baurusuchia by Walker (1970) and Montefeltro et al. (2011); to Notosuchia by Andrade and Bertini (2008) and Nascimento and Zaher (2011); to Mesoeucrocodylia by Godoy et al. (2014); to Sebecosuchia by Turner and Calvo (2005), Pol et al. (2012) and Pol et al. (2014); and to Baurusuchia by Darlim et al. (2021).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1945 | Baurusuchidae Price p. 1 |
| 1946 | Baurusuchidae Colbert |
| 1966 | Baurusuchidae Kuhn p. 85 |
| 1970 | Baurusuchidae Walker p. 369 |
| 1982 | Baurusuchidae Buffetaut p. 18 |
| 1988 | Baurusuchidae Carroll |
| 1991 | Baurusuchidae Gasparini et al. p. 325 |
| 2004 | Baurusuchidae Carvalho et al. p. 988 fig. 7 |
| 2005 | Baurusuchidae Carvalho et al. p. 14 |
| 2005 | Baurusuchidae Turner and Calvo p. 93 |
| 2008 | Baurusuchidae Andrade and Bertini |
| 2011 | Baurusuchidae Montefeltro et al. |
| 2011 | Baurusuchidae Nascimento and Zaher |
| 2012 | Baurusuchidae Pol et al. |
| 2014 | Baurusuchidae Godoy et al. |
| 2014 | Baurusuchidae Pol et al. |
| 2021 | Baurusuchidae Darlim et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Unr. †Baurusuchidae Price 1945
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Unr. †Baurusuchinae Montefeltro et al. 2011
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G. †Aphaurosuchus Darlim et al. 2021
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†Aphaurosuchus escharafacies Darlim et al. 2021
†Aphaurosuchus kaiju Martins et al. 2024
G. †Baurusuchus Price 1945
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†Baurusuchus albertoi Nascimento and Zaher 2010
†Baurusuchus pachecoi Price 1945
†Baurusuchus salgadoensis Carvalho et al. 2005
Unr. †Pissarrachampsinae Montefeltro et al. 2011
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| L. I. Price 1945 | Crocodilians with elongate and laterally compressed skull. Vertical quadrates. Dentition differentiated, with tendency to extreme reduction especially in the maxilla. Teeth resembling those of carnivorous dinosaurs. Secondary palate of mesosuchian type. Ectopterygoids large and entering the borders of the internal narial openings. Extra-cranial characters unknown. | |
| E. H. Colbert 1946 | Skull compressed and deep, especially in the facial region. Internal nares posteriorly placed, bounded in front and in back by the pterygoids and laterally by the expanded ectopterygoids. Well-developed palatine tube. Quadrate vertical. Supratemporal fenestra large and longer than it is broad. Teeth greatly reduced as to number, very strongly differentiated as to size, and laterally compressed. Three teeth in the premaxilla, and in the anterior part of the maxilla two large "caniniform" teeth. A "caniniform" tooth in the dentary for the reception of which there is a very deep notch in the anterior part of the maxilla. |
Measurements
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Benton 1983, Carroll 1988, Bush and Bambach 2015, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Cenomanian to the top of the Danian or 99.60000 to 61.60000 Ma
Collections (21 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Cenomanian | Niger (Agadez) | Baurusuchidae indet. (58577) | |
| Coniacian - Maastrichtian | Brazil (São Paulo) | Baurusuchidae indet. (51956) | |
| Santonian | Argentina (Río Negro) | Baurusuchidae indet. (84309) | |
| Santonian | Argentina (Neuquén) | Baurusuchidae indet., Cynodontosuchus rothi (47808) Wargosuchus australis (112698) | |
| Campanian | Brazil (Minas Gerais) | Baurusuchidae indet. (221750) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Brazil (Sao Paulo) | Aphaurosuchus kaiju (231751) Baurusuchus sp. (190140) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Brazil (São Paulo) | Aphaurosuchus escharafacies, Baurusuchidae indet. (32345) Aplestosuchus sordidus (156128) Baurusuchidae indet., Baurusuchinae indet. (204759) Baurusuchus albertoi (112699) Baurusuchus pachecoi (118193) Baurusuchus salgadoensis (92678) Campinasuchus dinizi (221362) Stratiotosuchus maxhechti (113146 113170) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Brazil (Minas Gerais) | Campinasuchus dinizi (113112) Pissarrachampsa sera (112695) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Brazil (Maranhão) | Gondwanasuchus scabrosus (190080) | |
| Danian | Bolivia | Cynodontosuchus rothi (118197) |