Biology:Sebecidae
Sebecidae is an extinct family of prehistoric terrestrial sebecosuchian crocodylomorphs, known from the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic of Europe and South America. They were the latest surviving group of non-crocodilian crocodylomorphs.
The oldest known member of the group is Ogresuchus furatus known from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Tremp Formation (Spain).[1] Other records of the group are known from the Eocene of Europe.[2] Sebecids were diverse, abundant and broadly distributed in South America (mostly in Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia) during the Cenozoic, from the Paleocene until the Middle Miocene.[3] The youngest known sebecids identified as cf. Sebecus sp. are reported from the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene strata of the Dominican Republic.[4]
This group included many medium- and large-sized genera, from Sebecus to the giant 6-metre-long (20 ft) Barinasuchus from the Miocene.[5] They are thought to have served as apex terrestrial predators of their ecosystems.[6]
Phylogeny
Juan Leardi and colleagues in 2024 defined Sebecidae in PhyloCode as "the least inclusive clade containing Sebecus icaeorhinus, Bretesuchus bonapartei, Barinasuchus arveloi, and Sahitisuchus fluminensis".[7] The following cladogram simplified after Diego Pol and Jaime E. Powell (2011).[3]
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References
- ↑ Sellés, A. G.; Blanco, A.; Vila, B.; Marmi, J.; López-Soriano, F. J.; Llácer, S.; Frigola, J.; Canals, M. et al. (2020). "A small Cretaceous crocodyliform in a dinosaur nesting ground and the origin of sebecids". Scientific Reports 10 (1). doi:10.1038/s41598-020-71975-y. PMID 32943663. Bibcode: 2020NatSR..1015293S.
- ↑ Martin, Jeremy E.; Pochat-Cottilloux, Yohan; Laurent, Yves; Perrier, Vincent; Robert, Emmanuel; Antoine, Pierre-Olivier (2022-10-28). "Anatomy and phylogeny of an exceptionally large sebecid (Crocodylomorpha) from the middle Eocene of southern France". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 42 (4). doi:10.1080/02724634.2023.2193828. ISSN 0272-4634. Bibcode: 2022JVPal..42E3828M. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2023.2193828.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Pol, Diego; Powell, Jaime E. (2011). "A new sebecid mesoeucrocodylian from the Rio Loro Formation (Palaeocene) of north-western Argentina". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: S7–S36. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00714.x.
- ↑ Viñola López, L. W.; Velez-Juarbe, J.; Münch, P.; Almonte Milan, J. N.; Antoine, P.-O.; Marivaux, L.; Jimenez-Vasquez, O.; Bloch, J. (2025). "A South American sebecid from the Miocene of Hispaniola documents the presence of apex predators in early West Indies ecosystems". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292 (2045): 20242891. doi:10.1098/rspb.2024.2891. PMID 40300627.
- ↑ Salias-Gismondi, R.; Antoine, P. O.; Baby, P.; Brusset, S.; Benammi, M.; Espurt, N.; de Franceschi, D.; Pujos, F. et al. (2007). Middle Miocene Crocodiles From the Fitzcarrald Arch, Amazonian Peru. Instituto Geológical y Minero de España. p. 4. ISBN 978-84-7840-707-1. http://www.igme.es/4empsla/libro/62.pdf. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ↑ Pochat-Cottilloux, Yohan; Martin, Jeremy E.; Faure-Brac, Mathieu G.; Jouve, Stéphane; de Muizon, Christian; Cubo, Jorge; Lécuyer, Christophe; Fourel, François et al. (1 September 2023). "A multi-isotopic study reveals the palaeoecology of a sebecid from the Paleocene of Bolivia" (in en). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 625. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111667. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018223002857. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
- ↑ Leardi, J. M.; Pol, D.; Montefeltro, F.; Marinho, T. S.; Ruiz, J. V.; Bravo, G. G.; Pinheiro, A. E. P.; Godoy, P. L. et al. (2024). "Phylogenetic nomenclature of Notosuchia (Crocodylomorpha; Crocodyliformes)". Bulletin of Phylogenetic Nomenclature 1 (3): 44–82. doi:10.11646/bpn.1.3.2.
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