Baurusuchinae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BaurusuchidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Baurusuchinae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
11 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
- Adamantina Formation · Bauru Group9
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The named rock units Baurusuchinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Baurusuchinae and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Baurusuchinae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Baurusuchus pachecoi2 sites
- Stratiotosuchus maxhechti2 sites
- Aphaurosuchus escharafacies1 site
- Aphaurosuchus kaiju1 site
- Aplestosuchus sordidus1 site
- Armadillosuchus1 site
- Aves1 site
- Bauruoolithus fragilis1 site
- Baurusuchidae1 site
- Baurusuchus1 site
- Baurusuchus albertoi1 site
- Baurusuchus salgadoensis1 site
- Brasilestes stardusti1 site
- Caipirasuchus stenognathus1 site
- Dinosauria1 site
- Lepisosteidae1 site
- Neosuchia1 site
- Serpentes1 site
- Siluriformes1 site
- Skolithos1 site
- Sphagesauridae1 site
- Taenidium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Baurusuchinae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
11 references- Cranial and postcranial anatomy of a juvenile baurusuchid (Notosuchia, Crocodylomorpha) and the taxonomical implications of ontogeny1
- A new Baurusuchidae (Notosuchia, Crocodyliformes) from the Adamantina Formation (Bauru Group, Upper Cretaceous), with a revised phylogenetic analysis of Baurusuchia1
- 3D skull modelling and description of a new baurusuchid (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Late Cretaceous (Bauru Basin) of Brazil1
- An additional baurusuchid from the Cretaceous of Brazil with evidence of interspecific predation among Crocodyliformes1
- Crocodylomorph eggs and eggshells from the Adamantina Formation (Bauru Group), Upper Cretaceous of Brazil1
- A new species of Baurusuchus (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil, with the first complete postcranial skeleton described for the family Baurusuchidae1
- A new specimen of Stratiotosuchus maxhechti (Baurusuchidae, Crocodyliformes) from the Adamantina Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Southeastern Brazil1
- Baurusuchus salgadoensis, a new crocodylomorpha from the Bauru Basin (Cretaceous), Brazil1
- Bite marks on a crocodylomorph from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil: evidence of social behaviour?1
- Short note on a new Baurusuchidae (Crocodyliformes, Metasuchia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil1
- A new reptile from the Cretaceous of Brazil1
Each of the 11 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Baurusuchinae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Baurusuchinae was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBaurusuchidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Montefeltro et al. 2011)