Goniopholidids Temporal range: 196–66 Ma Sinemurian - Maastrichtian |
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Anteophthalmosuchus fossil, Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Brussels | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Neosuchia |
Family: |
†Goniopholididae Cope, 1875 |
Subgroups | |
Goniopholididae is an extinct family of moderate-sized semi-aquatic crocodyliforms superficially similar to living crocodiles (but see below). They lived between the Early Jurassic and the Late Cretaceous.
The following cladogram simplified after an analysis presented by Marco Brandalise de Andrade and colleagues in 2011.