Extinct family of reptiles
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 ).[ 2] Other records of the group are known from the Eocene of Europe.[ 3] 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 ;[ 4] although it has been suggested that at least some forms could have survived until the Miocene-Pliocene boundary in Brazil.[ 5]
This group included many medium- and large-sized genera , from Sebecus to the giant 6-metre-long (20 ft) Barinasuchus from the Miocene .[ 6]
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^ 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). Bibcode :2022JVPal..42E3828M . doi :10.1080/02724634.2023.2193828 . ISSN 0272-4634 .
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