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Protosuchia is a group of extinct Mesozoic crocodyliforms. They were small in size (~1 meter in length) and terrestrial . In phylogenetic terms, Protosuchia is considered an informal group because it is a grade of basal crocodyliforms, not a true clade .
This family should not be confused with Protosuchia, which is an informal evolutionary grade of primitive crocodiliforms Distribution ...
Protosuchus (from Greek: protos, "first" and Greek: souchos, "crocodile") [1] is an extinct genus of carnivorous crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic.It is among the earliest animals that resemble crocodilians.
Stegomosuchus is an extinct genus of small protosuchian crocodyliform.It is known from a single incomplete specimen discovered in the late 19th century in Lower Jurassic rocks of south-central Massachusetts, United States.
Notosuchia is a suborder of primarily Gondwanan mesoeucrocodylian crocodylomorphs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous.Some phylogenies recover Sebecosuchia as a clade within Notosuchia, others as a sister group (see below); if Sebecosuchia is included within Notosuchia its existence is pushed into the Middle Miocene, about 11 million years ago.
In their phylogenetic analyses, Wu et al. (2025) recovered Pattisaura as a basal crocodylomorph in a sister taxon relationship with Redondavenator.The researchers noted that these two genera are the geographically closest non-crocodyliform crocodylomorphs in North America, although Redondavenator is from the slightly younger Redonda Formation of New Mexico.
Edentosuchus is a genus of protosuchian crocodyliform.It is known from fossils found in rocks of the Early Cretaceous-age Tugulu Group from the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China.
Nominosuchus is a genus of protosuchian-grade crocodyliform.It is known from several specimens discovered in ancient lake deposits of the Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Tsagaantsav Formation, southwestern Mongolia.