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Sabresuchus is an extinct genus of neosuchian crocodyliform from the Cretaceous of Europe. The name is derived from 'Sabre' in reference to the enlarged and curved fifth maxillary tooth, and 'suchus' from the Ancient Greek for crocodile.[1]

Taxonomy

Two valid species are currently recognized: Sabresuchus ibericus from eastern Spain, and Sabresuchus symplesiodon from Romania,.[1] Both species were previously assigned under the genus Theriosuchus, as T. ibericus[2] and T. symplesiodon[3] respectively. A 2016 cladistic analysis recovered it as a neosuchian more closely related to members of the family Paralligatoridae than to atoposaurids.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c 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)
  2. ^ Brinkmann, W. (1992). "Die Krokodilier-Fauna aus der Unter-Kreide (Ober-Barremium) von Uña (Provinz Cuenca, Spanien)". Berliner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen (E). 5: 1–123.
  3. ^ Martin Jeremy, Rabi Márton, Csiki Zoltán (2010). "Survival of Theriosuchus (Mesoeucrocodylia: Atoposauridae) in a Late Cretaceous archipelago: a new species from the Maastrichtian of Romania". Naturwissenschaften. 97 (9): 845–854. Bibcode:2010NW.....97..845M. doi:10.1007/s00114-010-0702-y. PMID 20711558. S2CID 32176974.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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