Hallopodidae

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Hallopodidae
Temporal range: Late Jurassic
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Hallopus victor front and hind limb
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Crocodylomorpha
Family: Hallopodidae
Marsh, 1881
Genera

Hallopodidae is a family of Late Jurassic crocodylomorphs. It was defined by Juan Leardi and colleagues in 2017 as all taxa more closely related to Hallopus victor than to Protosuchus richardsoni or to Dibothrosuchus elaphros . They have been recovered as the closest relatives of the Crocodyliformes. [1]

References

  1. Leardi, Juan Martin; Pol, Diego; Clark, James Matthew (2017). "Detailed anatomy of the braincase of Macelognathus vagans Marsh, 1884 (Archosauria, Crocodylomorpha) using high resolution tomography and new insights on basal crocodylomorph phylogeny". PeerJ. 5: e2801. doi: 10.7717/peerj.2801 . PMC   5251941 . PMID   28133565.