| Terminonaris Temporal range: Cenomanian - Turonian
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| Teleorhinus robustus skull (AMNH 5850) in the American Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Family: | †Pholidosauridae |
| Genus: | †Terminonaris Osborn, 1904 |
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Terminonaris is a genus of extinct pholidosaurid crocodyliforms that lived during the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian and Turonian[1][2]) epoch. The name means: “enlarged snout or nose” at the front of the skull.[3] Terminonaris is an early crocodile, within a subgroup called Mesoeucrocodylia. Its remains have only been found in North America[4] and Europe. Originally known under the generic name Teleorhinus, it was once believed to be a teleosaurid (a family of marine gavial-like thalattosuchians). Both prehistoric crocodiles such as Terminonaris, as well as modern crocodiles, belong to the same group called crocodyliformes, although modern crocodiles have specific features that indicate they are distant relatives of this species and members of the subgroup Eusuchia.
- ^ Wu X-C, Russell AP, & Cumbaa SL. 2001. Terminonaris (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes): new material from Saskatchewan, Canada, and comments on its phylogenetic relationships. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):492-514.
- ^ Shimada, K., and Parris, D.C., 2007. A long-snouted Late Cretaceous crocodyliform, Terminonaris cf. T. browni, from the Carlile Shale (Turonian) of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 110(1):107-115.
- ^ ""Big Bert" Carrot River Crocodile" (PDF).
- ^ Adams, Thomas L.; Polcyn, Michael J.; Mateus, Octávio; Winkler, Dale A.; Jacobs, Louis L. (1 May 2011). "First occurrence of the long-snouted crocodyliform Terminonaris (Pholidosauridae) from the Woodbine Formation (Cenomanian) of Texas". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (3): 712–716. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.572938. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 86061260.