Biology:Metriorhynchoidea

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Short description: Extinct superfamily of reptiles

Metriorhynchoids
Temporal range: Early Jurassic-Early Cretaceous, Toarcian–Aptian
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Restoration of Teleidosaurus calvadosii
Scientific classification e
Missing taxonomy template (fix): Archosauria/Reptilia
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Crocodyliformes
Suborder: Thalattosuchia
Parvorder: Neothalattosuchia
Superfamily: Metriorhynchoidea
Fitzinger, 1843
Subgroups

Metriorhynchoidea is an extinct superfamily of thalattosuchian crocodyliforms from the Early Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous (Toarcian[2] - Valanginian, possibly as late as early Aptian[3]) of Europe, North America and South America. Metriorhynchids are fully aquatic crocodyliforms.[4][5] Named by Fitzinger, in 1843, it contains the basal taxa like Teleidosaurus, Zoneait and Eoneustes and the family Metriorhynchidae. An unnamed taxon is known from Chile .[6]

Phylogeny

Metriorhynchoidea is a stem-based taxon defined in 2009 as the most inclusive clade consisting of Metriorhynchus geoffroyii, but not Teleosaurus cadomensis.[6] The cladogram below follows the topology from a 2011 analysis by Andrea Cau and Federico Fanti.[4] Note that the same topology was obtained in Mark T. Young and Marco Brandalise de Andrade, 2009 and Mark T. Young, Stephen L. Brusatte, Marcello Ruta and Marco Brandalise de Andrade, 2010.[5][6]

Metriorhynchoidea 

Teleidosaurus calvadosii

Eoneustes bathonicus

Eoneustes gaudryi

Metriorhynchoidea indet.

Zoneait

 Metriorhynchidae 

Geosaurinae

Metriorhynchinae

References

  1. Young, Mark T.; Wilberg, Eric W.; Johnson, Michela M.; Herrera, Yanina; De Andrade, Marco Brandalise; Brignon, Arnaud; Sachs, Sven; Abel, Pascal et al. (2024). "The history, systematics, and nomenclature of Thalattosuchia (Archosauria: Crocodylomorpha)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad165. 
  2. Attila Ősi; Mark T. Young; András Galácz; Márton Rabi (2018). "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". PeerJ 6: e4668. doi:10.7717/peerj.4668. PMID 29761038. 
  3. Alfio A. Chiarenza; Davide Foffa; Mark T. Young; Gianni Insacco; Andrea Cau; Giorgio Carnevale; Rita Catanzariti (2015). "The youngest record of metriorhynchid crocodylomorphs, with implications for the extinction of Thalattosuchia". Cretaceous Research 56: 608–616. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.07.001. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Andrea Cau; Federico Fanti (2011). "The oldest known metriorhynchid crocodylian from the Middle Jurassic of North-eastern Italy: Neptunidraco ammoniticus gen. et sp. nov". Gondwana Research 19 (2): 550–565. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2010.07.007. Bibcode2011GondR..19..550C. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Mark T. Young; Stephen L. Brusatte; Marcello Ruta; Marco Brandalise de Andrade (2010). "The evolution of Metriorhynchoidea (Mesoeucrocodylia, Thalattosuchia): an integrated approach using geometrics morphometrics, analysis of disparity and biomechanics". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158 (4): 801–859. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00571.x. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Mark T. Young; Marco Brandalise de Andrade (2009). "What is Geosaurus? Redescription of Geosaurus giganteus (Thalattosuchia: Metriorhynchidae) from the Upper Jurassic of Bayern, Germany". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157 (3): 551–585. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00536.x. 

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