Uruguaysuchidae

Uruguaysuchidae is a family of notosuchian crocodyliforms that lived in South America and Africa during the Cretaceous period. It was formally defined under the PhyloCode in 2024 as "the most inclusive clade containing Uruguaysuchus aznarezi but not Baurusuchus pachecoi, Peirosaurus torminni, Mahajangasuchus insignis, Notosuchus terrestris, and Crocodylus niloticus."^[1] Below is a modified cladogram that depicts the preferred reference phylogeny, chosen from Fernández Dumont et al. (2020):^[2]

Notosuchia

Uruguaysuchidae Araripesuchus tsangatsangana Anatosuchus Araripesuchus wegeneri Araripesuchus buitreraensis Araripesuchus gomesii Araripesuchus patagonicus Uruguaysuchus Peirosauridae Stolokrosuchus Kaprosuchus Mahajangasuchus Hamadasuchus Gasparinisuchus Lomasuchus Uberabasuchus Montealtosuchus Ziphosuchia Candidodon Libycosuchus Simosuchus Neuquensuchus Pakasuchus Malawisuchus Sphagesauria Morrinhosuchus Sphagesauridae Sebecosuchia

Uruguaysuchidae Temporal range: Early - Late Cretaceous, 125–66 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Block containing multiple specimens of Araripesuchus wegeneri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauria
Clade:	Pseudosuchia
Clade:	Crocodylomorpha
Clade:	†Notosuchia
Family:	†Uruguaysuchidae Gasparini, 1971
Subgroups
†Anatosuchus †Araripesuchus †Uruguaysuchus