Goniopholididae

Goniopholididae
	Skeleton of Goniopholis
Temporal occurrence
	Lower Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous
	196.5 to 65.5 million years
Locations
	Western Europe; North America; Thailand; Xinjiang;
Systematics
	Crurotarsi
	Crocodylomorpha
	Mesoeucrocodylia
	Metasuchia
	Neosuchia
	Goniopholididae
Scientific name
	Goniopholididae
	Cope , 1875

The Goniopholididae are a family of crocodiles whose fossils were found in marine and freshwater deposits from the Lower Jurassic to the Upper Cretaceous . They lived on both sides of the then emerging North Atlantic in Western Europe and North America as well as in Asia, i.e. exclusively on what was then the northern continent of Laurasia . The type species is Goniopholis .

features

These were crocodiles with a broad, not particularly long snout. In contrast, the Pholidosauridae living at the same time had very narrow snouts. The teeth of the Goniopholididae were very strong. In its appearance and way of life, it is similar to today's alligators and real crocodiles . Their vertebrae were primitive and had concave articular surfaces. The secondary palate was only slightly more advanced than that of the early Mesoeucrocodylia . The Goniopholididae became very large, a skull of the Sunosuchus found in Thailand was 1.14 meters long. The length of the associated animal is estimated to be eight meters.

Genera

† Calsoyasuchus Tykoski , Rowe , Ketcham , Colbert , 2002
† Sunosuchus Young , 1948
† Eutretauranosuchus Mook , 1967
† Siamosuchus Lauprasert , Cuny , Buffetaut , Suteethorn & Thirakhupt , 2007
† Amphicotylus Cope , 1878
† Denazinosuchus Lucas & Sullivan , 2003
† Nannosuchus Owen , 1879
† Hulkepholis Buscalioni , Alcalá , Espílez & Mampel , 2013
† Anteophthalmosuchus Salisbury & Naish , 2011
† Goniopholis Owen , 1841

literature

Eric Buffetaut : The evolution of the Crocodilians. In: Scientific American . Vol. 241, No. 4, 1979, pp. 124-132.
Eric Buffetaut, Rucha Ingavat: Thailand's Mesozoic Vertebrates. In: fossils. Early life pictures. Spectrum of Science, Heidelberg 1989, ISBN 3-922508-56-1 , S, 84-91.

Individual evidence

↑ Ronald S. Tykoski, Timothy B. Rowe, Richard A. Ketcham, Matthew W. Colbert: Calsoyasuchus valliceps, a new crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona. In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Vol. 22, No. 3, 2002, ISSN 0272-4634 , pp. 593-611, doi : 10.1671 / 0272-4634 (2002) 022 [0593: CVANCF] 2.0.CO; 2 , digitized version (PDF; 5.82 MB) .

↑ ^a ^b Hartmut Haubold : Literature report. Archosauromorpha, Archosauriformes, Crurotarsi and Crocodylia until 2003. In: Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie. Part 2: Paleontology. Issue 1/2, 2004, ISSN 0044-4189 , pp. 1–27, digital version (PDF; 201 kB) .

↑ Komsorn Lauprasert, Gilles Cuny, Éric Buffetaut, Varavudh Suteethorn, Kumthorn Thirakhupt: Siamosuchus phuphokensis, a new goniopholidid from the Early Cretaceous (ante-Aptian) of northeastern Thailand. In: Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France. Vol. 178, No. 3, 2007, ISSN 0037-9409 , pp. 201-216, doi : 10.2113 / gssgfbull.178.3.201 .

[1] Ronald S. Tykoski, Timothy B. Rowe, Richard A. Ketcham, Matthew W. Colbert: Calsoyasuchus valliceps, a new crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona. In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Vol. 22, No. 3, 2002, ISSN 0272-4634 , pp. 593-611, doi : 10.1671 / 0272-4634 (2002) 022 [0593: CVANCF] 2.0.CO; 2 , digitized version (PDF; 5.82 MB) .

[Haubold-2] Hartmut Haubold : Literature report. Archosauromorpha, Archosauriformes, Crurotarsi and Crocodylia until 2003. In: Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie. Part 2: Paleontology. Issue 1/2, 2004, ISSN 0044-4189 , pp. 1–27, digital version (PDF; 201 kB) .

[3] Komsorn Lauprasert, Gilles Cuny, Éric Buffetaut, Varavudh Suteethorn, Kumthorn Thirakhupt: Siamosuchus phuphokensis, a new goniopholidid from the Early Cretaceous (ante-Aptian) of northeastern Thailand. In: Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France. Vol. 178, No. 3, 2007, ISSN 0037-9409 , pp. 201-216, doi : 10.2113 / gssgfbull.178.3.201 .