Biology:Hassiacosuchus

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Short description: Extinct genus of reptiles

Hassiacosuchus
Temporal range: Eocene,
47.8–41.2 Ma[1]
Hassiacosuchus haupti 01.jpg
Fossil, State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: Archosauriformes
Order: Crocodilia
Family: Alligatoridae
Subfamily: Alligatorinae
Genus: Hassiacosuchus
Weitzel, 1935
Type species
Hassiacosuchus haupti
Weitzel, 1935

Hassiacosuchus is an extinct genus of small alligatorid from the early Eocene of Germany , found at the Messel pit. It was named in 1935 by K. Weitzel, and the type species is H. haupti.[2] A second species, H. kayi, was named in 1941 by C.C. Mook for material from the Bridgerian (early Eocene) of Wyoming,[3] but was reassigned to Procaimanoidea in 1967 by Wassersug and Hecht.[4] Hassiacosuchus may be the same as Allognathosuchus; Christopher Brochu has recommended continuing to use Hassiacosuchus.[5]

Specimen at the Natural History Museum of Basel

The cladogram below from the 2020 Cossette & Brochu study shows the placement of Hassiacosuchus within Alligatoridae:[6]

Alligatoroidea

Leidyosuchus

Deinosuchus

Diplocynodon

Alligatoridae

Caimaninae (stem-based group)

Alligatorinae

Ceratosuchus

Hassiacosuchus

Navajosuchus

Allognathosuchus

Alligator mcgrewi

Alligator prenasalis

Wannaganosuchus

Arambourgia

Procaimanoidea

Alligator olseni

crown Alligatorinae

(stem‑based group)
(crown group)
(stem‑based group)

References

  1. Rio, Jonathan P.; Mannion, Philip D. (6 September 2021). "Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem". PeerJ 9: e12094. doi:10.7717/peerj.12094. PMID 34567843. 
  2. Weitzel, K. (1935). "Hassiacosuchus haupti n. g. n. sp., ein durophages Krokodil aus dem Mitteleozän von Messel" (in German). Notizblatt des Vereins für Erdkunde und der Hessischen Geologischen Landesanstalt Darmstadt 16: 40–49. 
  3. Mook, C.C. (1941). "A new crocodilian, Hassiacosuchus kayi, from the Bridger Eocene beds of Wyoming". Annals of the Carnegie Museum 28: 207–220. doi:10.5962/p.330789. 
  4. Wassersug, R.J.; Hecht, M.K. (1967). "The status of the crocodylid genera Procaimanoidea and Hassiacosuchus in the New World". Herpetologica 23 (1): 30–34. 
  5. Brochu, Christopher A. (2004). "Alligatorine phylogeny and the status of Allognathosuchus Mook, 1921". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24 (4): 857–873. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2004)024[0857:APATSO2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 0272-4634. 
  6. Adam P. Cossette; Christopher A. Brochu (2020). "A systematic review of the giant alligatoroid Deinosuchus from the Campanian of North America and its implications for the relationships at the root of Crocodylia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40: e1767638. doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1767638. Bibcode2020JVPal..40E7638C. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q5680063 entry