Theriosuchus

Theriosuchus
Temporal range: Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous, 145.5–140.2 Ma[1]
Fossil of T. pusillus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Clade: Crocodyliformes
Clade: Neosuchia
Clade: Eusuchia
Family: †Atoposauridae
Genus: †Theriosuchus
Owen, 1879
Species
  • T. pusillus Owen, 1879 (type)
  • T. grandinaris Lauprasert et al., 2011
  • T. morrisonensis Foster, 2018

Theriosuchus is an extinct genus of atoposaurid neosuchian from Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous of Europe (Hungary & southern England), Southeast Asia (Thailand) and western North America (Wyoming), with fragmentary records from Middle Jurassic and Early Cretaceous sites in China, Morocco, and Scotland.[2]

  1. ^ Rio, Jonathan P.; Mannion, Philip D. (6 September 2021). "Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem". PeerJ. 9: e12094. doi:10.7717/peerj.12094. PMC 8428266. PMID 34567843.
  2. ^ Tennant Jonathan P., Mannion Philip D., Upchurch Paul (2016). "Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 177 (4): 854–936. doi:10.1111/zoj.12400. hdl:10044/1/29026.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)