Reinterpretation and new denomination of Atacisaurus crassiproratus (Middle Eocene; Issel, France) as cf. Iberosuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Metasuchia)

Geobios

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 353-364

  Ortega, Francisco ^a   Buscalioni, Angela D ^a   Gasparini, Zulma ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b MUSEO DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Crocodylomorpha; Eocene; Europe; France; Metasuchia; Spain

Indexed keywords

ATACISAURUS CRASSIPRORATUS; CROCODILE; EOCENE; METASUCHIAN; SYSTEMATICS;

FRANCE, LANGUEDOC-ROUSILLON, AUDE, ISSEL;

EID: 0030467542     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6995(96)80037-4     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. ANTUNES M.T. 1975 - Iberosuchus, crocodile Sébécosuchien nouveau. L'Eocène ibérique au nord de la Chaîne centrale, et l'origine du canyon de Nazaré. Comunicaçoes dos Serviços Geologicos de Portugal, 59: 285-330.
2. ASTRE G. 1931 - Les crocodiliens fossiles des terrains tertiaires sous-pyrénéens. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, 61 : 25-71.
3. BENTON M. J. & CLARK J.M. 1988 - Archosaur phylogeny and the relationships of the Crocodylia : 289-332. In BENTON M.J. (ed.) : The phylogeny and classification of the Tetrapods : Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
4. BERG D.E. 1966 - Die Krokodile, insbesondere Asiatosuchus und aff. Sebecus ? aus Eozän von Messel bei Darmstadt/Hessel. Abhandlungen des Hessischen Landesamtes für Bodenforschung, 52 : 1-105.
5. BERG D.E. & CRUSAFONT M. 1970 - Note sur quelques Crocodiliens de l'Eocène prépyrénaïque. Acta Geológica Hispánica, 5 (2) : 54-57.
6. BONAPARTE J.F. 1991 - Los vertebrados fósiles de la Formación Rio Colorado, de la ciudad de Neuquen y cercanias, Cretácico superior, Argentina. Revista del Museo Argentina de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", 4(3) : 1-123.
7. BUFFETAUT E. 1974 - Trematochampsa taqueti, un Crocodilien nouveau du Sénonien inférieur du Niger. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris, 279 (ser. D) : 1749-1752.
8. BUFFETAUT E. 1986 - Un Mésosuchien ziphodonte dans l'Eocène supérieur de la Livinière (Hérault, France). Geobios, 19 (1) : 101-108.
9. BUFFETAUT E. 1988 - The Ziphodont Mesosuchian Crocodile from Messel : A Reassessment. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 107 : 211-221.
10. BUFFETAUT E. 1989 - A new ziphodont mesosuchian crocodile from the Eocene of Algeria. Palaeontographica, 208 (1-3) : 1-10.
11. BUFFETAUT E. & TAQUET P. 1979 - Un nouveau crocodilien mésosuchien dans le Campanien de Madagascar : Trematochampsa oblita nov. sp. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, 21 (2) : 183-188.
12. CHIAPPE L.M. 1988 - A new trematochampsid crocodile from the Early Cretaceous of north-western Patagonia, Argentina and its palaeobiogeographical and phylogenetic implications. Cretaceous Research, 9 : 379-389.
13. CLARK J.M., JACOBS L.L. & DOWNS R. 1989 - Mammallike dentition in a Mesozoic Crocodylian. Science, 244 : 1064-1066.
14. CUESTA M.A. 1991 - Los Perisodáctilos del Eoceno de la Cuenca del Duero. Ph. D. Discussion, University of Salamanca. Salamanca : 323 p. (Unpublished).
15. FARRIS J. 1988 - Hennig 86 references. Documentation for version 1.5. (Privately published).
16. FILHOL H. 1888 - Etude sur les vertébrés fossiles d'Issel (Aude). Mémoires de la Société géologique de France, 5 (Ser 3) : 173-174.
17. FRANZEN J.L. & HAUBOLD H. 1986 - The Middle Eocene of European Mammalian Stratigraphy. Definition of Geiseltalian. Modern Geology, 10 : 159-170.
18. GASPARINI Z. 1982 - Una nueva familia de cocodrilos zifodontos cretácicos de América del Sur. V Congreso Latinoamericano de Geología : 317-329
19. GASPARINI Z. 1984 - New Tertiary Sebecosuchia (Crocodylia, Mesosuchia) from Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 4 (1) : 85-91.
20. GASPARINI Z., CHIAPPE L.M. & FERNANDEZ M. 1991 - A new Senonian Peirosaurid (Crocodylomorpha) from Argentina and synopsis of the South American Cretaceous crocodilians. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 11 (3) : 316-333.
21. GERVAIS P. 1853 - Observations relatives aux reptiles fossiles de France (première partie). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris, 36 : 374-377.
22. GRAY 1831 - Synopsis Reptilium, or short description of the species of Reptiles. Part I : Cathaphracta, Tortoise, Crocodiles and Enaliosaurians : 85 p.
23. HAUGHTON S.H. 1924 - The fauna and stratigraphy of the Stormberg Series. Annales of the South African Museum, 12 : 323-497.
24. KUHN O. 1968 - Die Vorzeitlichen Krokodile. Oeben, Krailing : 124 p.
25. LANGSTON W. 1965 - Fossil crocodilians from Colombia and the Cenozoic history of the Crocodilia in South America. Publications in Geological Sciences, University of California, 52 : 1-157.
26. LANGSTON W. 1975 - Ziphodont crocodiles : Pristichampsus vorax (TROXELL), new combination, from the Eocene of North America. Fieldiana, 33 (16) : 291-314.
27. LEGASA O., BUSCALIONI A.D. & GASPARINI Z. 1994 - The serrated teeth of Sebecus and the Iberoccitanian crocodile. A morphological and ultrastructural comparison. Studia Geologica Salamanticensia, 29 : 129-144.
28. LI J. 1976 - Fossil of Sebecosuchia discovered from Nanxiong, Guangdong. Vertebrata Palasiatica, 14 : 169-174.
29. MARTÍN DE JESÚS S., JIMÉNEZ-FUENTES E., FINCIAS B., DEL PRADO J.M. & MULAS E. 1987 - Los Crocodylia del Eoceno de la Cuenca del Duero. Dientes y osteodermos. Revista Española de Paleontologĩa, 2 : 95-108.
30. MOLNAR R.E. 1981 - Pleistocene ziphodont crocodilians of Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum, 33 (19) : 803-834.
31. NORELL M.A. 1989 - The Higher Level Relationships of the Extant Crocodylia. Journal of Herpetology, 23 (4) : 325-335.
32. ORTEGA F. & BUSCALIONI A.D. 1992 - Cocodrilos fósiles del registro Castellano-Leones. In : Museo de Salamanca (ed). Vertebrados fósiles de Castilla-León. Salamanca, España : 59-70.
33. OWEN R. 1841 - On British fossil reptiles. Report of the British Association, Part II : 69 p.
34. PARRISH J.M. 1991 - A new specimen of an early crocodylomorph (cf. Sphenosuchus sp.) from the Late Triassic Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 11 : 198-212.
35. PRICE I.L. 1945 - A new reptil from the Cretaceous of Brasil. Notas Preliminares e Estudos (Minist. Agric, Divisão de Geologia e Mineralogia. Rio de Janeiro), 25: 1-9.
36. PRICE I.L. 1955 - Novos Crocodilídeos dos arenitos da Série Baurú Cretáceo do Estado de Minas Gerais. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, 27 : 487-498.
37. RUSSELL D.E., HARTENBERGER J.L., POMEROL C., SEN S., SCHMIDT-KITTLER N. & VIANEY-LIAUD M. 1982 - Mammals and Stratigraphy : The Paleogene of Europe. Paleovertebrata, (mém. extraord.) : 1-77.
38. SCHMIDT-KITTLER M. (ed.) 1987 - International Symposium on Mammalian Biostratigraphy and Paleoecology of the European Paleogene. Mainz, Münchener Geowissenschaften, A (10) : 7-311.
39. SERENO P.C. & WILD R. 1992 - Procompsognathus : Theropod, "Thecodont" or both?. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 12 (4) : 435-458.
40. SIMPSON G.G. 1937 - New reptiles from the Eocene of South America. American Museum Novitates, 927 : 1-3.
41. VASSE D. 1992 - Un crâne d'Asiatosuchus germanicus du Lutétien d'Issel (Aude). Bilan sur le genre Asiatosuchus en Europe. Geobios, 25 (2) : 293-304.
42. WALKER A.D. 1970 - A revision of the Jurassic reptile Hallopus victor (Marsh) with remarks on the classification of crocodiles. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 257 (B) : 323-372.
43. WALKER A.D. 1990 - A revision of Sphenosuchus acutus HAUGHTON, a crocodylomorph reptile from the Elliot Formation (late Triassic or early Jurassic) of South Africa. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 330 (B) : 1-120.
44. WOODWARD A.S. 1896 - On two mesozoic crocodilians. Notosuchus (genus novum) and Cynodontosuchus (genus novum) from the Red Sandstones of the territory of Neuquen (Argentine Republic). Anales del Museo de La Plata, Paleontología, 4 : 1-20.