CROCODYLIFORMES HAY, 1930

Clark, James M., 2011, A new shartegosuchid crocodyliform from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of western Colorado, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163 (5), pp. 644-645 : 644-645

CROCODYLIFORMES HAY, 1930

Discussion: Crocodyliformes are diagnosed by a large suite of characters ( Clark, 1994), some of which were recently discovered in Junggarsuchus sloani , hypothesized to be the sister taxon of Crocodyliformes ( Clark et al., 2004) . All non-mesoeucrocodylian crocodyliforms are sometimes united in the taxon Protosuchia, and the monophyly of this group has been supported by some analyses (e.g. Wu et al., 1997) but not others ( Clark, 1994; Pol & Norell, 2004a, b; Pol & Gasparini, 2009), including the one below.