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Thalattosuchia is the name given to a clade of marine crocodylomorphs from the Early Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous that had a cosmopolitan distribution. They are colloquially referred to as marine crocodiles or sea crocodiles, though they are not members of Crocodilia. The term Thalattosuchia was coined by Fraas in 1901.〔Fraas E. 1901. Die Meerkrokodile (Thalattosuchia n. g.) eine neue Sauriergruppe der Juraformation. ''Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde, Württemberg'' 57: 409-418.〕 Various authors considered Thalattosuchia an infraorder or a suborder within "Mesosuchia". However, the term "Mesosuchia" is a paraphyletic group, and as such is no longer used. For consistency, the Thalattosuchia are here placed at suborder rank, although the order that contains it is unnamed. Since Buffetaut (1982) demonstrated the shared characteristics of the early forms of Metriorhynchidae and Teleosauridae, Thalattosuchia has consisted of these two families.〔Buffetaut, E. 1982. Radiation évolutive, paléoécologie et biogéographie des Crocodiliens mésosuchienes. ''Mémoires Societé Geologique de France'' 142: 1–88.〕 Some of the early members of Teleosauridae have been discovered in non-marine deposits. The systematics of the genus ''Pelagosaurus'' are confused, with differencing topologies placing it as either a teleosaurid,〔Gasparini Z, Pol D, Spalletti LA. 2006. An unusual marine crocodyliform from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary of Patagonia. ''Science'' 311: 70-73.〕 or as the sister taxon to a Teleosauridae + Metriorhynchidae clade. Others considered ''Pelagosaurus'' to be a basal metriorhynchid.〔 ==See also== *List of thalattosuchian-bearing stratigraphic units *List of marine reptiles 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thalattosuchia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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