Crocodyliformes HAY 1930

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.Published as part of Clark, James M., 2011, A new shartegosuchid crocodyliform from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of western Colorado, pp. 644-645 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163 (5) on pages 644-645, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00719.x, http://zenodo.org/record/544176