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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]
Phylogeny
The following
cladogram simplified after Diego Pol and Jaime E. Powell (2011).
[4]
References
^ Martin, J. E.; Pochat-Cottilloux, Y.; Laurent, Y.; Perrier, V.; Robert, E.; Antoine, P.-O. (2023). "Anatomy and phylogeny of an exceptionally large sebecid (Crocodylomorpha) from the middle Eocene of southern France". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology : e2193828.
doi :
10.1080/02724634.2023.2193828 .
S2CID
258361595 .
^ Sellés, A. G.; Blanco, A.; Vila, B.; Marmi, J.; López-Soriano, F. J.; Llácer, S.; Frigola, J.; Canals, M.; Galobart, À. (2020).
"A small Cretaceous crocodyliform in a dinosaur nesting ground and the origin of sebecids" . Scientific Reports . 10 (1): Article number 15293.
Bibcode :
2020NatSR..1015293S .
doi :
10.1038/s41598-020-71975-y .
PMC
7499430 .
PMID
32943663 .
^ 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 .
^
a
b Diego Pol and Jaime E. Powell (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 .
hdl :
11336/69518 .
^ Liccardo, Antonio, and Luiz Carlos Weinschütz. "
Registro inédito de fósseis de vertebrados na Bacia Sedimentar de Curitiba (PR)
Archived 2015-06-02 at the
Wayback Machine ."
Revista Brasileira de Geociências 40.3 (2010): 330-338.
^ 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 (PDF) . Instituto Geológical y Minero de España. p. 4.
ISBN
978-84-7840-707-1 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on July 4, 2009. Retrieved May 12, 2010 .