Notosuchia
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| Notosuchia Fossil range: Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous |
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Notosuchidae |
Notosuchia is a suborder of Mesoeucrocodylia that lived during the Cretaceous. It was a clade of terrestrial crocodilians that evolved a range of feeding behaviours, including: herbivory (Chimaerasuchus), terrestrial hypercarnivory (Baurusuchus), and omnivory (Simosuchus).
The evolutionary interrelationships of Notosuchia are in flux, but the following genera are generally considered notosuchians:
- Adamantinasuchus
- Anatosuchus
- Baurusuchus
- Chimaerasuchus
- Comahuesuchus
- Malawisuchus
- Mariliasuchus
- Notosuchus
- Simosuchus
- Uruguaysuchus
