Stolokrosuchus: Difference between revisions

'''''Stolokrosuchus''''' is an [[extinct]] [[genus]] of [[neosuchia]]n [[crocodylomorph]] that lived during the [[Early Cretaceous]]. Its fossils, including a skull with a long thin snout and bony knobs on the [[prefrontal bone|prefrontal]], have been found in [[Niger]]. ''Stolokrosuchus'' was described in 2000 by Hans Larsson and Boubacar Gado. The [[type species]] is ''S. lapparenti''. They initially described it as related to [[Peirosauridae]], if not a member of that [[family (biology)|family]].<ref name=HLBG00>{{cite journal |last=Larrson |first=Hans C. E. |author2=Gado, Boubacar |year=2000 |title=A new early Cretaceous crocodyliform from Niger |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen |volume=217 |issue=1 |pages=131–141|doi=10.1127/njgpa/217/2000/131 }}</ref> One study has shown it to be related to ''[[Elosuchus]]''.<ref name=FDB02>{{cite journal |last=de Broin |first=F. de L. |year=2002 |title=''Elosuchus'', a new genus of crocodile from the Lower Cretaceous of the North of Africa |journal=Comptes Rendus Palevol |volume=1 |issue=5 |pages=275–285 |doi=10.1016/S1631-0683(02)00049-0}}</ref> However, more recent works usually find ''Stolokrosuchus'' to be one of the [[basal (phylogenetics)|basalmost]] neosuchian,<ref name=TS10>{{cite journal |last=Turner |first=Alan H. |author2=Sertich, Joseph J. W. |year=2010 |title=Phylogenetic history of ''Simosuchus clarki'' (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=30 |issue=6, Memoir 10 |pages=177–236 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2010.532348}}</ref> only distantly related to the [[elosuchid]]<ref name=BML12>{{Cite journal | last1 = Bronzati | first1 = M. | last2 = Montefeltro | first2 = F. C. | last3 = Langer | first3 = M. C. | title = A species-level supertree of Crocodyliformes | doi = 10.1080/08912963.2012.662680 | journal = Historical Biology | volume = 24 | issue = 6 | pages = 598–606 | year = 2012 | pmid = | pmc = }}</ref><ref name=G.kiplingi>{{Cite journal |author=Marco Brandalise de Andrade |author2=Richard Edmonds |author3=Michael J. Benton |author4=Remmert Schouten |lastname-authorlist-ampstyle=yesamp |title=A new Berriasian species of ''Goniopholis'' (Mesoeucrocodylia, Neosuchia) from England, and a review of the genus |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=163 |issue=s1 |pages=S66–S108 |year=2011 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00709.x|doi-access=free }}</ref> or [[pholidosaurid]],<ref name=Meridiosaurus>{{Cite journal |author1=Daniel Fortier |author2=Daniel Perea |author3=Cesar Schultz |lastauthorampname-list-style=yesamp |title=Redescription and phylogenetic relationships of ''Meridiosaurus vallisparadisi'', a pholidosaurid from the Late Jurassic of Uruguay |url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00722.x/abstract |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=163 |issue=s1 |pages=S66–S108 |year=2011 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00709.x|doi-access=free }}</ref> ''[[Elosuchus]]''.