Peirosauridae
Sign in to savePeirosauridae is a Gondwanan family of mesoeucrocodylians that lived during the Cretaceous period. It was a clade of terrestrial crocodyliforms that evolved a rather dog-like skull, and were terrestrial carnivores. It was phylogenetically defined in 2004 as the most recent common ancestor of Peirosaurus and Lomasuchinae and all of its descendants. Lomasuchinae is a subfamily of peirosaurids that includes the genus Lomasuchus.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Peirosauridae is referenced by 147 other articles, and connects out to Notosuchia, Hamadasuchus and Argentina.
Vinony files it under Early Cretaceous crocodylomorphs, Early Cretaceous first appearances and Late Cretaceous crocodylomorphs.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Parent taxon
- Metasuchia
- Image
- Uberabasuchus BW.jpg
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- taxon name
- Peirosauridae
- taxon rank
- family
- Commons category
- Peirosauridae
- time period
- Late Cretaceous
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Peirosauridae is a Gondwanan family of mesoeucrocodylians that lived during the Cretaceous period. It was a clade of terrestrial crocodyliforms that evolved a rather dog-like skull, and were terrestrial carnivores. It was phylogenetically defined in 2004 as the most recent common ancestor of Peirosaurus and Lomasuchinae and all of its descendants. Lomasuchinae is a subfamily of peirosaurids that includes the genus Lomasuchus.
Lomasuchinae was defined in the same 2004 study as the most recent common ancestor of Lomasuchus and Mahajangasuchini and all of its descendants. Mahajangasuchini, also constructed in the study, was defined as the most recent common ancestor of Mahajangasuchus and Uberabasuchus and all of its descendants. However, all more recent phylogenetic analyses placed Mahajangasuchus within its own family, Mahajangasuchidae, along with the newly named Kaprosuchus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Peirosauridae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.